 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at verv short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 482 pages
...worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the national Constitution amended. *»**»»** My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well...subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. }{ there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | United States - 1894 - 580 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...seriously injure the government in the short space of four years_ My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 410 pages
...watches wearies every star. WAR OR PEACE? ABRAHAM LINCOLN. EXTRACT FROM HIS FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS. MY countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well...whole subject ! Nothing valuable can be lost by taking tune. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...truth right? " and," etc. CHAP, xx i. their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.38 My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject.39 Nothing valuable... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 540 pages
...vigilance, no legislature and no administration can," etc. Mr. Lincoln changed it to read as follows: "While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can," etc. s»The original phrase, "take time and think well," Mr. Seward suggested... | |
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By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While... 
