 | William Dameron Guthrie - 1923 - 404 pages
...darkest crisis of the Civil War, equally applicable to us to-day: The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose the last, best hope on earth. The most striking phenomenon of this... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1906 - 524 pages
...significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Theodore A. Huntley - Diplomats - 1924 - 348 pages
...significance or insignificance will save the one or the other of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope on earth." Shall not we of this later date,... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...generation") also gives a premonition of famous statements to come. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down (in honor or dishonor) to the latest generation. [SW 2.415] Those words to Congress in 1862 were themselves forecast in Lincoln's Peoria address of... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...1820, to 1827, and 1829-1833. can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Archives - 1993 - 466 pages
...administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . . The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. . . . We shall nobly save,... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - History - 1995 - 493 pages
...significance, or insignificance, can spare one or the other of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." These words, indeed the entire peroration, are among the most eloquent he ever uttered. They show a... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 242 pages
...our country. "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. . . . The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom for the free — honorable alike in what we give,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...Seconding opinion about Major Robert Allen, quartermaster. ONOR The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "Annual Message to Congress," December 1, 1862, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v.... | |
| |
Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. 
