 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 216 pages
...words of manly defence, saying, in April, 1864, " Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preBerve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865
...the best of my ability, imposed npon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government — that Nation, of which that Constitution...Constitution ? By general law life and limb must be protected ; vet often a limb must be amputated to save a life : but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - United States - 1865 - 808 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...the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 808 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...the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 297 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...yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life ana, limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 808 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must bo protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save...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
...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...lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution 'I By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life... | |
 | William R. Williams, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Whitney Bellows, Stephen Higginson Tyng, Charles Seymour Robinson, William Ives Budington, John McClintock, Abram Newkirk Littlejohn, Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, Joseph Parrish Thompson, James Eells, Elbert Stothoff Porter, Ebenezer Platt Rogers, Samuel Dickinson Burchard, Joel Edson Rockwell, Samuel Thayer Spear, Robert Lowry, Albert Sanford Hunt, William Adams, Henry J. Fox, George Bancroft, Henry Boynton Smith, Matthew Simpson - 1865 - 420 pages
...if labor had not first existed ;" " In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free;" "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb ;" — what volumes of philosophy, of history, of political economy, of legal and ethical science are... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 842 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...organic law. Was it possible to lose the Nation, and yet preHcrve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 653 pages
...pofisib'e to lose the nation and yet preserve the Contutlon ''. By general law, life and limb mnst u came widely given to Rave a limb. I felt tbat measures, otherwise unconstitutional, muht become lawful,... | |
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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... 
