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" Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? " By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never .wisely given to save... "
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ... - Page 282
by Frank Crosby - 1865 - 476 pages
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The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History ...

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...
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The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Patriotism of Illinois: A Record of the Civil and Military ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State ...

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...
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Gems from Abraham Lincoln: Born February 11 [i.e. 12], 1809, in Hardin ...

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...
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Patriotism in Poetry and Prose: Being Selected Passages from Lectures and ...

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...
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Abraham Lincoln: A Memorial Discourse

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 100

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...
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Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services

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...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 11

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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