 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...to the people who inhabit it." " The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people." " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or any equal hope in the world?" These sentences were utterances of a faith within him. In the people... | |
 | Education - 1919 - 408 pages
...its perversion. They say with Lincoln: "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultinmte justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?" It is important to guard against hasty legislation. The initiative and referendum would defeat their... | |
 | Edwin Allison Schell - Evangelistic work - 1893 - 228 pages
...sovereign, and treated as such. Whether personally worthy or unworthy, his authority is respected. " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?" said Abraham Lincoln; and, after all, he voices the belief of this age of democracy, that there is... | |
 | 1893 - 566 pages
...most of his public utterances which followed. On March 4th, i86i, he said: " If the Almighty Ruler, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or yours of the South, that truth and justice will surely prevail by the great tribunal of the American... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...circumstances, favor, than rather oppose, a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon jt. ***** Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...without faith of being in the right ? If the Almighty Kuler of nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 174 pages
...power to avert it, except to neglect a Constitutional duty." • INAUGURAL ADDRESS, MARCH 4, 1861. " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...is either party without faith of being in the right ?" • CONVERSATIONAL, 1861. " This is our own affair. It is a family quarrel with which foreign nations... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...administer the present government, as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. Why should there not be a patient confidence...differences is either party without faith of being in the rigntf If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...government, as it came to , w hjs hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. ( Wliy should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate...people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world I In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the rignt ? If the Almighty... | |
 | William James Potter - Sermons, American - 1895 - 474 pages
...the conflict, the key-note of democratic faith and assurance is sounded. "Why," said the President, "should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate...faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of events, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 pages
...administer the present government as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. Why should there not be a patient confidence...truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great... | |
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If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people. 
