| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2003 - 304 pages
...present," Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, just before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we...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 pages
...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 pages
...destruction. What is required is the sort of fundamental shift that Abraham Lincoln called for in his time: "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."37 To "disenthrall ourselves" from Deuteronomic dogmas brings us... | |
| Adam Braver - 2004 - 321 pages
...for a stick of morphine. And the carriage rolled on. On to the next field. C Crybaby Jack's Theory The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...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... | |
| William G. Tierney - 2004 - 276 pages
...learning and research. Professors are embedded agents. Updating the Dogmas Abraham Lincoln said in 1862: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew. We must disenthrall ourselves" (Boritt... | |
| Adam Braver - 2004 - 321 pages
...The dogmas of the quid past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high ifith difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so uv must think anew, and act anew. We must disentrall oursehvs, and then ice shall save our country.... | |
| Ted Halstead - 2009 - 304 pages
...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... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 pages
...now, then "this assurance would end the struggle now, and save the Union forever." Take the chance: "As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." At the very least slaveholders should accept compensation for the sake of lessening an "expenditure... | |
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