 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 410 էջ
...Hodges, April 4, 1864. Continued from preceding page.) l attempt no compliments to my own sagacity. l claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...what either party or any man devised or expected, (lod alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain. lf God now wills the removal of a great... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 էջ
...the destiny of his nation and race. All this, and more, lies behind that easily repeated phrase : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." We shall find it more fully expressed a year later in the Second Inaugural. of security that his work... | |
 | American Federation of Labor - 1908 - 692 էջ
...and so come as to be worth the keeping at all future time. — Springfield Letter of Aug. 26, 1863. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.— Letter to AG Hodges. April 4, 1864. I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 78 էջ
...it, nothing can succeed. Notes for Speeches, Oct. I, 1858, vol. IV, p. 222. CONTROLLED BY EVENTS I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Letter to AG Hodges, Apr. 4, 1864., vol. X, p. 68, 6 Abraham Lincoln STAND WITH THE RIGHT Stand with... | |
 | Edgar Truman Brackett - 1908 - 338 էջ
...moral question of slavery * * * In telling .this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Any attempted comparison between the methods of Lincoln and those of the present is difficult — they... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1909 - 40 էջ
...antislavery policy. With characteristic modesty, he said to Mr. Hodges of Kentucky: "I claim not to huve controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, unrt wills that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1910 - 358 էջ
...There is something very high and noble and grave and religious in his published writings. Thus : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, God wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | 1910 - 178 էջ
...not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is Tiot what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1910 - 296 էջ
...they are within his reach. Said Abraham Lincoln, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now at the end of...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." There spoke not the dignified statesman of the academic tradition who moulds... | |
 | Isaac Newton Phillips - 1910 - 138 էջ
...of men, and distinctly disclaimed any personal credit for emancipation. He wrote, in April, 1864, "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." This was honest and it was true, for in the stress of war, events, under a popular government, must... | |
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. 
