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" By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... "
Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services - Page 97
by Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 216 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 343

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1952 - 1030 pages
...consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." * Some of our Presidents, such as Lincoln, "felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the na*Id., at 177-178 (emphasis changed). 3 Decisions of...
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The Living Age, Volume 295

Literature - 1917 - 920 pages
...so did Lincoln strike a balance when he said: "Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." Self-Denial. SELF-DENIAL. "And what," I said, "did you do during the Great War, Francesca?" "In the...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 11

1865 - 810 pages
...of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Bight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed tliis ground, and now...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now...
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Patriotism in Poetry and Prose: Being Selected Passages from Lectures and ...

James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...nation—of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? " By general law, life and limb...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now...
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 490 pages
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 2

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, lii'e t from behind his defenses and give us hnttle on Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now...
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The Character and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, President of the ...

William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution? 9 By general law, life and limb must be protected. Yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the...
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The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great ...

Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...Caatutfonf By general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to aare a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that matures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation...
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