 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1967 - 1726 pages
...sometimes encumbers the record, but I would like to quote what President Abraham Lincoln once said: The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the...anew. We must act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves. Senator CLARK. I wish I could, with the help of you gentlemen, persuade — this is not intended as... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1967 - 1140 pages
...problems, and we might remember what Lincoln said a century ago. "The dogmas of the quiet past are indeed inadequate for the stormy present. We must think anew....We must act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves." In a sense this does have an impact on what we are doing here, even though he spoke of another subject... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1968 - 654 pages
...phraseology but it was well over a century ago that Lincoln said of the troubles of that period — The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the...present. We must think anew, we must act anew, we must disenthral ourselves. And we could say that today, couldn't we, about the problems frankly of our highways... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads - 1968 - 464 pages
...phraseology but it was well over a century ago that Lincoln said of the troubles of that period — The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the...present. We must think anew, we must act anew, we must disenthral ourselves. And we could say that today, couldn't we, about the problems frankly of our highways... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1968 - 938 pages
...refer to a statement that Abraham Lincoln made approximately a hundred years ago when he said that the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy present. We must think anew and act anew. And I think the admonition is as appropriate today as it was then, and it certainly applies... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - 1968 - 1400 pages
...citizens nil the, time. Representative HOLIFIELD. I certainly do agree with you along that line — the dogmas of the quiet, past are inadequate for the stormy present, as one of our famous men said. REVIEW BY WATER RESOURCES COUNCIL Mr. Ross. This particular bill incorporates... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Treasury - 1970 - 806 pages
...with the Congress to break and forget past traditions — looking to the challenge of the future : "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy present. We mnst think anew, we must act anew, we must disenthrall ourselves." Our country has turned again to... | |
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall... 
