| 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... | |
| John Marsh - Temperance - 1866 - 400 pages
...assembled. When offered wine, at Cincinnati, on his way to take the reins of Government, he said, " For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to change." When asked by a friend, after his inauguration, if he was not overawed in addressing that immense audience... | |
| Temperance - 1877 - 1018 pages
...assembled. When offered wine at Cincinnati on his way to take the reins of Government, he said : " For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to change"; again, when asked by a friend, after his inauguration, "If he was not overawed in addressing that immense... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Christian fiction, English - 1883 - 300 pages
...and his friends offered him some wine. Mr. Lincoln politely declined the proffered cup, and added, " For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to change I " WINK, dice, and deceit make wealth small and want great. • * • INTEMPERANCE is a doctor's wet-nurse.... | |
| Daniel Dorchester - Alcoholism - 1884 - 742 pages
...be assembled. When offered wine at Cincinnati, on his way to take the reins of government, he said, 'For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to change.' When asked by a friend, after his inauguration, if he was not overawed in addressing that immense audience... | |
| New England - 1899 - 870 pages
...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... | |
| 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 place; but living, brave... | |
| 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... | |
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