 | Douglas Ambrose, Robert W. T. Martin - History - 2006 - 311 pages
...Lincoln believed it legitimate to oppose with force and violence any intrusions upon one's own land: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate... | |
 | Robert Tracy McKenzie - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...Lincoln expressed this belief as well as any of his contemporaries in a speech before Congress in 1848: Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 366 pages
...line had not been established by a treaty but by revolution. Lincoln then proceeded to argue that: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, — a most sacred right — a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate... | |
 | Harold Levi, George Corell - History - 2006 - 390 pages
...Appendix to Congressional Globe, page 94, 30th Congress. "Any people anywhere, being inclined, and having power, have the right to rise up and shake off the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred right— a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - History - 2010 - 505 pages
...supported the right of Texas or any group of people to choose their own destiny: Any people anywhere have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and... | |
 | William Marvel - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - 2006 - 434 pages
...behind him, Lincoln had argued the legitimacy of the Mexican and Texas revolutions, contending that "any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...up, and shake off the existing government, and form one that suits them better."33 Now had come a new emergency — and, perhaps, a new perspective on... | |
 | Kekionga Press - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 100 pages
...assassinated while at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC "Any people whatever have a right to abolish the existing government and form a new one that suits them better." Abe Lincoln, Congressional Record, 1847 (1). William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) A Major General in... | |
 | Gary Lee Roper - Self-Help - 2008 - 350 pages
...revealing book, The Real Lincoln, January 12, 1848, Lincoln made a speech in Congress, in which he said: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having...government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate... | |
 | Carolyn Ackerly Bonstelle, Geordie Buxton - History - 2008 - 132 pages
...native James Islanders allude to "The War," one need not question the war to which they are referring. "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate... | |
 | Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 118 pages
...issues over which the war was being fought) should be left to its residents: "Any people anywhere . . . have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better." This idea, he said, was to "liberate the world." (By 1861 he had clearly changed his mind.) On December... | |
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Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to... 
