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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. "
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ... - Page 272
by Frank Crosby - 1865 - 476 pages
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The Words of Abraham Lincoln, for Use in Schools

Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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...
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Scribner's Popular History of the United States: From the Earliest ..., Volume 5

William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1898 - 874 pages
...said, was the first care of the President. " Was it posl AG Hodges, April 4, 1864. sible," he asked, "to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." He added : " When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it,...
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Abraham Lincoln

Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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...
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The Gettysburg Speech, and Other Papers

Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 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...
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850...

James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 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 I The three words in brackets are Lincoln's, the rest Chase's. See Warden's Chase,...
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Source-book of American History: Ed. for Schools and Readers

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1899 - 484 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 indisBy ABRAHAM LINCOLN...
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The Gettysburg Speech, and Other Papers

Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 pages
...that • Hiiiiiviiu " -T-, - ty&^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - - — -- '^sW^^*H^^B^*K^^ LETTER TO AG HODGES. 75 nation, of which that Constitution was the organic...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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Source-book of American History: Ed. for Schools and Readers

Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1899 - 478 pages
...5"at¥step'T. ' ' ' ' For Lincoln s of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it views on possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution...general law. life and limb must be protected, yet often a i". 12o.— ..' ? , , . ../ , ',.; . For slavery, limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life...
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The Anglo-Saxon Review, Volume 7

Bookbinding - 1900 - 308 pages
...ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that Government—that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic...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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Lincoln's Words on Living Questions: A Collection of All the Recorded ...

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 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 felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable...
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