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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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.

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Apr 22, 2026

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About Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson (born 12 September 1957) is a British author.

He is noted for his books Sea Room — about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides — and the bestselling Power and Glory (published in North America as God's Secretaries), about the making of the King James Bible. God's Secretaries was a New York Times "Notable Book".

In 2005, he published Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero, about Admiral Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar.

Nicolson lives with his family Molly, Rosie, Tom, Will and Ben and his wife Sarah Raven at Perch Hill Farm in Sussex. He is the son of writer Nigel Nicolson and grandson of the writers Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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