 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 pages
...free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask, " Is there in all Republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" Must a government of necessity be...the war power of the Government, and so to resist the force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation. The call was made, and the response... | |
 | Henry William Elson - History - 1904 - 1022 pages
...can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. ... Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? " That the President no longer thought of compromise is clear from his statement that " no popular... | |
 | Theology - 1906 - 336 pages
...appeal back to bullets ? Or, as he put it again : — " Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness ? Must a government, of necessity,...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? " Here his oath and his inclination became identified. Lincoln the President and Lincoln the civilian... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 354 pages
...message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language: "Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness ? " This question he answered in the name of the... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 660 pages
...to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity,...resist force employed for its destruction, by force employed for its preservation." * * * Of the situation in Virginia he said: "The people of Virginia... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1907 - 114 pages
...devoting any to temper. THIRD \ do not argue — I beseech you to make the argument for yourself. FOURTH Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? APRIL FIFTH Lift artificial weights from all shoulders. SIXTH The purposes of the Lord are perfect... | |
 | Carl Schurz - Presidents - 1907 - 224 pages
...message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language: "Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness ? " This question he answered in the name of the... | |
 | Carl Schurz - Presidents - 1907 - 232 pages
...message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language: "Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness ? " This question he answered in the name of the... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...maintain its integrity against domestic foes. " Must a Government, of necessity, be too strong for the 238 liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? " To the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus he referred in this succinct question : " Are all... | |
 | Winfield Scott Kerr - Cabinet officers - 1908 - 476 pages
...power to preserve its own existence, and thus believing, he said to Congress in his first message: — "So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call...the Government, and so to resist force employed for iti destruction, by force, for its preservation." The report of the Secretary of the Treasury showed... | |
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