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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... "
The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of ... - Page 35
edited by - 1865 - 288 pages
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Reference History of the United States: For High Schools and Academies

Hannah Amelia (Noyes) Davidson, Mrs. Hannah Amelia Noyes Davidson - United States - 1891 - 232 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...injure the Government in the short space of four years. If there be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately,...
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Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of ..., Volume 1

Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...have wisely given their puKie 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. AV'me the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no Administration, by any extreme of wickedness...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...wisdom, provided for the return of that little to I heir own hands at very short intervals. \Vlulr the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration by any extreme of weakness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. " My...
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Statesmen

Noah Brooks - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 386 pages
...as aliens, he argued that the whole matter in dispute should be left to all the people. He said : " While the people retain their virtue and vigilance,...the government in the short space of four years." Throughout his speech he pleaded earnestly for union, peace, and harmony ; but these arguments, it...
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Selections from the Works of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...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....
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Complete Works, Volume 6

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 pages
...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 seriousI ly injure the government in the short space of * four years....
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 2

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...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....
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...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....
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volume 64

Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...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....
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Coronado's Journey to New Mexico and the Great Plains: 1540-42

George Parker Winship - Cibola, Seven Cities of - 1894 - 182 pages
...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 the peqple retain their virtue and vigilant, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly,...
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