 | George Spring Merriam - African Americans - 1906 - 482 pages
...; a demonstration, irresistible as mathematics, that " the central idea of Secession is anarchy." " Unanimity is impossible, the rule of a minority, as...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left." In the address there is not one word of heat or bitterness ; it is all in the spirit of his words spoken... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1907 - 114 pages
...not over-cautious ? FO UR TEENTH The severest justice may not always be the best policy. FIFTEENTH The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. MAY SIXTEENTH One poor man, colored though he be, with God on his side, is stronger against us than... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 148 pages
...does, of TheBulwark of American Liberty and Indepen dence necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority as...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. First Inaugural Address. March 4, 1 86 1. 'HAT constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1908 - 214 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as...inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, an124 archy or despotism in some form is all that is left. Physically speaking, we cannot separate.... | |
 | Armistead Churchill Gordon - 1909 - 422 pages
...power conferred upon the Supreme Court by this section, in his first inaugural, in which he said: > "I do not forget the position assumed by some that...questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, not do I deny that such questions must be binding upon the parties to that suit, while they are also... | |
 | George Washington - 1910 - 156 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minor25 ity, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...constitutional questions are to be decided by the Su30 preme Court ; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties... | |
 | The Lake English Classics WASHINGTON WEBSTER AND LINCOLN - 1910 - 158 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minor25 ity, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;...constitutional questions are to be decided by the Su30 preme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties... | |
 | Joseph Villiers Denney - 1910 - 348 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minor25 ity, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;...constitutional questions are to be decided by the Sus0 preme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties... | |
 | English literature - 1910 - 408 pages
...sovereign of a free people. 30 Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. 35 I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by... | |
 | Lemuel Dyer Lilly - Liquor laws - 1910 - 56 pages
...sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.' In order to make their argument hold good, these advocates of personal liberty must make it appear... | |
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy... 
