 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 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.... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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.... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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...short space of four years. MY COUNTRYMEN, ONE AND ALL. "My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this subject. Nothing valuable can be lost... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 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...injure the government in the short space of four years. 88 (January 27, 1837, Speech at Springfield, 11l.— Complete Works, Vol. I, p. 12.) When I so pressingly... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 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.... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...•.•nvernment in the short space of four years. SST My countrymen, one and all, take time and think well, upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. Nothing worth preserving is either breaking or burning. If there be an object to Jiurry any of you,... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...little power for mischief ; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to 390 their own hands at very short intervals. While the...injure the Government in the short space of four years. 3!S My countrymen, oije and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 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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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... 
