| 1865 - 516 pages
...that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to loso the nation and yet preserve the Constitution / By...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... | |
| Mrs. P. A. Hanaford - 1865 - 230 pages
...words of manly defence, saying, in April, 1864, " Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preBerve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must...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... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...the best of my ability, imposed npon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government — that Nation, of which that Constitution...Constitution ? By general law life and limb must be protected ; vet often a limb must be amputated to save a life : but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 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...the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 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...the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 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...yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life ana, limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save...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... | |
| 1865 - 538 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...lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution 'I By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life... | |
| Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...to the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of prewiring, by every indispensable means, that Government — that nation, of which that Constitution...it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Contutionī By general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must 1ю amputated to... | |
| George Bancroft - Rare books - 1865 - 438 pages
...if labor had not first existed ;" " In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free;" "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb ;" — what volumes of philosophy, of history, of political economy, of legal and ethical science are... | |
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