Submitted by Peter on Tue 8 Dec at 1:01 PM

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to 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.
Abraham Lincoln
Second Annual Message to Congress
December 1, 1862

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