 This is not a day of triumph ; it is a day of dedication. Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up...  The American Review of Reviews - Page 3881913Full view - About this book
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...success of a party." Instead, "Here muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity ... I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men, to my side." The trouble with Wilson's vision is that it ran up against the reality of power. Wilson's vision of... | |
 | Garry Wills - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 644 pages
...wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes coil upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try?' " — Richard Nixon, October 2, 1968 HENRY KISSINGER, who looks like a serious Harpo Marx, haunted... | |
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...wait upon us, men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try?" What Wilson would do was stated in only the most general terms during the campaign. If the campaign... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1917 - 566 pages
...wait upon us ; men's lives hang in the balance ; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to...fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me ! ADDRESS. [Delivered in tht chamber of the House of Representatives at a joint session of the two... | |
 | Janne Skaffari - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 440 pages
...from being elaborate (33)-(34): (33) ... I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward looking men, to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me. (W.Wilson, I, 1913) (34) As I stand here today, having taken the solemn oath of office in the presence... | |
 | Stan-Joseph Jennings - Humor - 2005 - 190 pages
...hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me." Woodrow Wilson, March 4,1913 "A nation, like a person, has a body — a body that must be fed and clothed... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - History - 2006 - 469 pages
...wait upon us, men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to...fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me! ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG On the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, July 4, 1913, Wilson delivered this... | |
 | William Safire - Political Science - 2008 - 888 pages
...wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to...fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me! In Shakespeare's time, peroration meant an overblown, flowery speech ("What means this passionate discourse?... | |
 | Mbijiwe Mwenda - Religion - 2008 - 286 pages
...wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to...fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me! The specter of World War I with Germany hung over the events surrounding his second inauguration. A... | |
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