 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.  The Living Age - Pagina 5791916Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William G. Bowen, Harold T. Shapiro - 1998 - 300 pagine
...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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.44 President Bush occupied the office in... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2003 - 306 pagine
...1862, just before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. "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." Securing our homeland is the responsibility with which history has charged us; it is the mission which... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - 2004 - 251 pagine
...confronted him. "The dogmas of the quiet past," he said, "are inadequate to the stormy present." Rather, "[a]s our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." So perhaps it is best to begin with what we should not learn from the Civil War experience.1 Viewing... | |
 | Robert Jewett, John Shelton Lawrence - 2004 - 412 pagine
...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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."37 To "disenthrall ourselves" from Deuteronomic... | |
 | Adam Braver - 2004 - 321 pagine
...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...new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. — DECEMBER i, 1862 rybaby Jack had a theory... | |
 | David Edward Marcinko - 2004 - 524 pagine
...dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The case 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. — Abraham Lincoln, 1862 The times, they are a-changing. —Bob Dylan, 1962 A century separates the... | |
 | Evan Wolfson - 2007 - 258 pagine
...Frederick Douglass, vol. 2, ed. Philip S. Foner (New York: International Publishers, 1950), p. 437. 37. "As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country" (Abraham Lincoln, "Second Annual Message... | |
 | Ted Halstead - 2009 - 304 pagine
...the most memorable. "The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present," he said. "As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." We offer these essays in that spirit. The American Paradox Ted Halstead The richest and most powerful... | |
 | Steven R. Weisman - 2004 - 436 pagine
...some of his most eloquent language in support of the cause, the President urged Congress to unite. "As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew," he said. "We must disenthrall our selves, and then we shall save our country." Then later that month,... | |
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