The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present... we must think anew and act anew.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Abraham Lincoln, (Feb 12 1809-1865), US president, lawyer; He was the 16th U.S. president during the Civil War; wrote Emancipation Proclamation, and Gettysburg Address, 1863.