 | Jerome Bert Wiesner - 2003 - 654 Seiten
...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...anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves." Lincoln's advice is very relevant today. Disenthrall ourselves we must, not from old dogmas, but from... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2003 - 306 Seiten
...Emancipation Proclamation. I am quoting: "The occasion is piled high with difficulty," he said, "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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."37 To "disenthrall ourselves" from Deuteronomic dogmas brings us face to face with our finitude,... | |
 | Evan Wolfson - 2007 - 258 Seiten
...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...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country" (Abraham Lincoln, "Second Annual Message to Congress," US Capitol, Washington, DC, December 1, 1862).... | |
 | Adam Braver - 2004 - 321 Seiten
...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 disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. — DECEMBER i, 1862 rybaby Jack had a theory... | |
 | David Edward Marcinko - 2004 - 524 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Ted Halstead - 2009 - 304 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall... 
