 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...same people — can or can not maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. . . . So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call...the war power of the government; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. This was not Mr. Lincoln's view... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...same people — can or can not maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. . . . So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call...the war power of the government ; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. This was not Mr. Lincoln's view... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 718 pages
...on the earth. It forces iis to ask, Is there in all Republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties...the war power of the Government; and so, to resist force employed for its destruction by force employed for its preservation. . . ." Having reached this... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 750 pages
...the earth. It compelled the question: "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" Viewing the issue in this light, the President had no choice but to call out the war power of the... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 pages
...the earth. It compelled the question: "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" Viewing the issue in this light, the President had no choice but to call out the war power of the... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1901 - 264 pages
...the earth. It forces us to ask, ' Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? ' ' Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? ' " Lincoln was only enforcing here just such ideas of self-government as, during all his life, he... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...inherent and fatal weakness ?" Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of ite own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence...the force employed for its destruction by force for ite preservation. The call was made, and the response of the country was most gratifying, surpassing,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...the war power of the government; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. It may be affirmed without extravagance... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Slavery - 1903 - 500 pages
...government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...out the war power of the government and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation. Mr. Lincoln in a few paragraphs exposed... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...the war power of the government; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. It may be affirmed without extravagance... | |
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? 
