 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view, that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the...unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming mdispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the Nation. Right... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...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... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 666 pages
...to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...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 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution...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... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - 1865 - 24 pages
...to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...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... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government — that nation, of which that Constitution...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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - Patriotism - 1865 - 194 pages
...the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government — that nation — of which that Constitution...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... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...reference to his course, he uttered, not an apology, but words of manly defence, saying, in April, 1864, " Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve...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... | |
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Constitution was the organic law. 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. 
