...enough to govern themselves, l>ut they are not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes /" Well, I doubt not that the people of Nebraska are, and will...man is good enough to govern another man, without tliat other's consent, I say this is the leading principle, the sheet-anchor of American Republicanism....

...leaders. In his Peoria speech, Oct. 16th, 1834, [see Ho well's Life of Lincoln, page 279,] he said : — " What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. 1 say this is the leading principle, the sheet-anchor of American Republicanism....

...leaders. In his Peoria speech, Oct. 16th, 1854, [see Howell's Life of Lincoln, page 279,] he said :— ' What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. I say this is the leading principle, the sheet-anchor of American Republicanism....

...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...

...representative man of the age — one of the most conservative also— on the following ; — EQUALITY. *c What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. I say this is the leading principle of American Republicanism."- — Oct. 1854....

...the Declaration of Independence in the closing campaign of the century. We hold with Abraham Lincoln that " No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs...

...right 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...

...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...

...unconsenting and protesting millions of men — is something to be bought and sold? Abraham Lincoln once said: "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs...

...taxed." For equally practical reasons, Lincoln, at the same time that he was championing the doctrine that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent, was insisting that the Union should govern the Confederacy regardless of its consent....