 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that rejecting the minority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form, is all that is left. . . . One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other... | |
 | George Parker Winship - Cibola, Seven Cities of - 1894 - 182 pages
...Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...object of that suit, while they are also entitled to a very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 174 pages
...Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form, is all that is left." LETTER TO HON. REVERDY JOHNSON, THEN AT NEW ORLEANS, JULY 26, l862. " The people of Louisiana — all... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule. of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. H; I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Citizenship - 1895 - 376 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. — Abraham Lincoln. The faith of our people in the stability and permanence of their institutions... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...object of that suit, while they are also entitled to a very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government;... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - Silver question - 1896 - 658 pages
...of the moment. I read to you from a State paper — from the inaugural address of Abraham Lincoln: I do not forget the position assumed by some that Constitutional questions are to bo decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...supremely a representative of the nation's accumulated common sense. He said in his first inaugural : " I do not forget the position assumed by some that...decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such questions must be binding upon the parties to that suit, while they are also entitled to very high... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholy inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. * * * * Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...object of that suit, while they are also entitled to a very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government.... | |
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Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. 
