 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 498 pagina’s
...we all do better?' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, ' Can we do better ?' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress... | |
 | Samuel Gibbs French - 1901 - 452 pagina’s
...Harper's Ferry, and for which he was apotheosized and numbered among the saints. Mr. Lincoln said: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. Our case is new. We must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall... | |
 | 1920 - 1124 pagina’s
...this from Abraham Lincoln spoken just preceding the reconstruction period following the Civil War. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must arise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." The Executives of... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 604 pagina’s
...'Can we all do better?' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, 'Can we do better ?' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 pagina’s
...we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, " Can we do better? " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 412 pagina’s
..."Can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, "Can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - 1906 - 430 pagina’s
...will appear. President Lincoln, after mature reflection, could say in his message, December 1 : 2 " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." For better, for worse, four millions of tribal Africans, chatteled in body and soul, were to be transformed... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 466 pagina’s
...in Lincoln's appeal to Congress for the acceptance of his plan for emancipation with compensation. " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise to meet it. As our case is new so must we think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1906 - 612 pagina’s
...all do better?' «j Object Whatsoever-ls pcrsslfile; stflTfnV question recurs, 'Can we do better ?' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled highjvyith *dj ffkulty^jinj^w.ejn™^ rise^witfr ffie occasion. As our case is new, so wejnust think... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pagina’s
..."Can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, " Can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is plied high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think... | |
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. 
