 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...region depended, not on any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it) but on revolution. 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... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
..."sacred" right of revolution. In 1848, while serving in Congress, he had said, "Any people anywhere, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better." Moreover, that right is not limited to cases in which the whole people of a nation choose to exercise... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...the inhabitants of that area had engaged in a revolution against Mexico. "Any people anywhere . . . have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better," he announced. "Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 1, p. 278. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. Speech in United States House of Representatives: "The War with Mexico," January 12, 1848, reprinted... | |
 | Dr. H. - Medical - 1996 - 272 pages
...change what does not work is one of the great principles of our system of government. (Richard Nixon) Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 308 pages
...mankind."13 In this, Reagan was in the tradition of Lincoln, who in 1848 invoked the Declaration to proclaim: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...existing government and form a new one that suits them. This is a most valuable and sacred right, which we hope and believe is to liberate the world."14 The... | |
 | Thomas H. Naylor, William H. Willimon - Business & Economics - 1997 - 300 pages
...Morality of Secession Early in his political career Abraham Lincoln supported the right to secede: Any people anywhere being inclined and having the...shake off the existing government, and form a new one which suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and... | |
 | Frederick L. Will - Philosophy - 1997 - 278 pages
...time of the Mexican War Lincoln had urged that the right of any people, or portion of such people, "to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better ... is a most valuable, a most sacred right." Later as President, confronted by the secession of the... | |
 | African Association of Political Science - Political Science - 1998 - 248 pages
...Lincoln made a passionate speech on January 12 against the US invasion of Mexico in which he stated 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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...have his peculiar ambition. 6366 Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory. 6367 r of mankind. 7548 Paradise Lost Him the almighty...ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down T This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.... | |
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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... 
