 | Rogan Kersh - 2001 - 388 páginas
...went only so far, as Lincoln plainly stated. "I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so, would be to discard all the lights of current experience—to reject all progress— all improvement," the new president declared in 1860. Lincoln... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 páginas
...fire-eaters grated on this sensibility. Allowing slavery to expand rather than shrink to its death "would be to discard all the lights of current experience — to reject all progress — all improvement." But such truculence could never hold off the tide of the future for long. The war they caused would... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 2005 - 284 páginas
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 | L. P. Brockett - 2006 - 756 páginas
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 | Abraham Lincoln - 2007 - 304 páginas
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 | John G. Nicolay - 2008 - 704 páginas
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 | 1901 - 374 páginas
...guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to...argument so clear, that even their great authority, faMy considered and weighed, cannot stand; and most surely not in a case whereof we ourselves declare... | |
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Now, and here, let me guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience —to reject all progress — all improvement. 
