 | Maeva Marcus - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 422 pages
...which indicated that in some situations it was necessary to go beyond the Constitution. For example, "Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve...often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become... | |
 | Charles J. McClain - History - 1994 - 528 pages
...power to wage war is the liower to wage war successfully."80 and (2) President Lincoln's homely words "by general law, life and limb must be protected,...a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb/'81 "This same argument of "prevention of conflict" was presented to the Supreme Court in Buchanan... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - History - 1995 - 493 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...lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? ... I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - History - 1993 - 480 pages
...law," he asserted, at the height of what must still be considered our greatest national emergency, "life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb...a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb."17 In assessing this philosophy, we should recognize the difficult choices which confronted the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 6, p. 267. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). By general law life and limb must be protected; yet...life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. Letter to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 7, p.... | |
 | Gary L. Gregg - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 266 pages
...very well be that one institution is the more legitimate holder of the people's will and power — "often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb."58 It was his belief that the oath he took to protect the Constitution, as he put it, "imposed... | |
 | Louise Bachelder - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 76 pages
...swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot. War does not admit of holidays. By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet...life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. History is not history unless it is the truth. God selects His own instruments, and sometimes they... | |
 | Howard Jones - Political Science - 1999 - 268 pages
...he asserted to a friend, carried with it the "duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government - that nation - of which that constitution...lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution?" Preservation of the Union provided the chief prerequisite to the destruction of slavery. "I could not... | |
 | Russell Lowell Riley, Russell Lynn Riley - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 404 pages
...indispensable means, that government — that nation — of which that constitution was the organic law. Wjs it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the...general law life and limb must be protected; yet often limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." Don E. Fehrenbacher,... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - History - 2000 - 346 pages
...to the best of my ability, imposed on 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 being indispensable to the... | |
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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... 
