 | 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... | |
 | United States - 1888 - 436 pages
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 | 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.... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1898 - 168 pages
...might encounter the opposition of the court which had rendered the Dred Scott decision, said : — "I do not forget the position assumed by some that...suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are nlso entitled to a very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or...be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit, while they are also entitled to a very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all... | |
 | Eltweed Pomeroy - Legislation - 1900 - 132 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, in his first inaugural. "Not the centralization, but the diffusion of power is... | |
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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. 
