| George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government — that nation, of which that Constitution...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1865 - 642 pages
...to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| James Edward Murdoch - Patriotism - 1865 - 194 pages
...the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government — that nation — of which that Constitution...but a life is never .wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| Thomas Mears Eddy - 1865 - 24 pages
...to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 666 pages
...to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - Presidents United States Biography - 1865 - 232 pages
...reference to his course, he uttered, not an apology, but words of manly defence, saying, in April, 1864, " Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| 1865 - 516 pages
...that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to loso the nation and yet preserve the Constitution / By...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
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