| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1900 - 758 pages
...that nation, of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the natiou ami yet preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must lie amputated to save a life, but. a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures,... | |
| Bookbinding - 1900 - 282 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... | |
| William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 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... | |
| John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 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... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 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 1 The three words in brackets are Lincoln's, the rest Chase's. Sen Warden's Chase,... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 354 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... | |
| John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1906 - 612 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...the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By /.f eeneral law, life and limb must be protected, yet often £' • / b ._- -i.-... — "" .....fl-.i,li-^t^i^.tj... | |
| Memorial Day - 1906 - 434 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>y general law life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life... | |
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