 | American literature - 1880 - 764 pages
...test ; " Jackson, " There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in abuses ; " " No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent ; " " There are two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue... | |
 | Education - 1919 - 714 pages
...philosophy of government and that expressed by German leaders. We quote just two or three samples: Lincoln : No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. My rightful masters, the American people. Nothing stamped with the divine image and likeness was sent... | |
 | Education - 1924 - 708 pages
...of self -development — until the principle declared by Lincoln prevails everywhere, namely, that "no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." The "war after the war", the war of today, is not merely to make the world "safe for democracy," but... | |
 | 1906 - 192 pages
...my faith with friend and foe." "There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law." "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." "I believe this Government can not permanently endure half slave and half free." "Gold is good in its... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 544 pages
...governs another man, that is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...to be, as good as the average of people elsewhere. I do not say the contrary. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle, the sheetanchor of American Republicanism. Our Declaration of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Slavery is founded in the selfishness of. man's nature — opposition to it, in his love of justice.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 428 pages
...pay the cost. Letter to James C. Conkling, Aug. 20, l863, vol. IX, p. 1O1. TRUE LAW OF DIVINE RIGHT No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Speech at Peoria, III., Oct. 10,1854, vol. II, p. 228. PREPARATION FOR TYRANNY Familiarize yourself... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 pages
...practically enforced and carried out." SPEECH AT PEORIA, ILLS. OCT. 17, 1858. " What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." SPEECH AT LEWISTON, AUG. 17, 1858. " This (the Declaration of Independence) was their lofty and noble... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...to be as good as the average of people elsewhere. I do not say the contrary. What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle, the sheet-anchor of American republicanism. Our Declaration of... | |
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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. 
