 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1887 - 204 pages
...itself cannot stand, I say again and again.'" The opening paragraph of the speech is as follows : " If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 800 pages
...much : " If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1888 - 828 pages
...unerased." These are the words that he prized so highly, and which, for the time, cost him so much : " If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could 124 Peninsula. Pope's army, reinforced by the remains of the Army of the Peninsula, had been driven... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. (Speech at Springfield, III., June 26, 1857.) If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. (House-divided-against-itself-speech, July 17, 1858.)... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...written, and it may not be amiss to quote here its most important portion : "Gentlemen of the convention: If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1888 - 426 pages
...with the following stringent definition of the political situation : " Gentlemen of the Convention : " If we could first know where we are and whither we are drifting, we could better know what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since... | |
 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1889 - 516 pages
...time to our situation as a Society. "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention," said Mr. Lincoln, "If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it." This outlines what I propose to present for your consideration. By a brief review, scarcely more... | |
 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - 1889 - 518 pages
...time to our situation as a Society. "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention," said Mr. Lincoln, "If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it." This outlines what I propose to present for your consideration. By a brief review, scarcely more... | |
 | Torrey Botanical Club - Algae - 1899 - 346 pages
...the foundations of the problem of fern genera, and actuated by the spirit of Lincoln's aphorism, " If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it," we shall seek for a rational basis for the system by reviewing historically the fern genera that... | |
 | Kansas State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1889 - 522 pages
...time to our situation as a Society. "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention," said Mr. Lincoln, "If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it." This outlines what I propose to present for your consideration. By a brief review, scarcely more... | |
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. 
