 Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? 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...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 2231865Full view - About this book
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1917 - 540 pages
...the Constitution or in any statute ; but he thought out what were satisfying reasons to his own mind. "My oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability," he wrote afterwards, "imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1917 - 532 pages
...the Constitution or in any statute ; but he thought out what were satisfying reasons to his own mind. "My oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability," he wrote afterwards, "imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - 1918 - 464 pages
...conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act upon this judgment and feeling. ... I did understand that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability implied in me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government and that nation of... | |
 | Emerson David Fite - United States - 1919 - 1164 pages
...understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability, imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet ^8^- ';!' ^^'. Vk... | |
 | Charles Henry Carey - Local author - 1922 - 1036 pages
...letter to Mr. Hodges (April 4, 1864), in which he said: "My oath to preservo the constitution imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government, that nation, of which the Constitution is the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution?... | |
 | Arthur Benton Mavity, Nancy Barr Mavity - Citizenship - 1923 - 444 pages
...them of the charges against them or giving them a hearing. He defended himself in these words: "I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government, that nation, of which the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1926 - 544 pages
...I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability, imposed V upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of... | |
 | Leon Whipple - Civil rights - 1927 - 384 pages
...what Lincoln said of his policy: April 4, 1864. . . . My oath to preserve the Constitution imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government, that nation, of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution?... | |
 | Richard F. Haynes - History - 1999 - 372 pages
...Finally, in an explicit statement on his concept of his role, Lincoln wrote: "I did understand . . . that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best...— of which that constitution was the organic law. ... I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable... | |
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