 | Frank P. King - Political Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...fly to anarchy or to despotism.... The chief magistrate derives all his authority from the people.... His duty is to administer the present government,...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil... | |
 | Brenda Wong - Conduct of life - 1999 - 138 pages
...LUTHER KING, JR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Justice is nothing else than love felt by the wise. LIEBNIZ Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? ABRAHAM LINCOLN To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of people. ABRAHAM LINCOLN... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose, but the Executive as such has nothing...justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right?... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose but the Executive as such has nothing...justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right?... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this also if they choose; but the executive, as such, has nothing...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. We must keep firmly in mind the distinction between the natural right of revolution and the positive... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. . . . Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right?... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...closing paragraphs, where he focuses on the reaction of his audience to his preceding argument. He asks, "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?"100 This follows his earlier defense of the Constitution as offering the best hope for those... | |
 | Brent K. Ashabranner, Brent Ashabranner - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 78 pages
...the Lincoln Memorial 56 About the Lincoln Memorial 60 Bibliography 61 Index 63 This One EAD5-S8W-89SD Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address AUTHOR'S NOTE My Lincoln, My Lincoln Memorial... | |
 | Rogan Kersh - History - 2001 - 388 pages
...Congressional representatives supposedly laboring in a spirit of comity had disbanded. As Lincoln then asked, "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world?" 95 Popular Sovereignty and Union In an antebellum polity marked by torchlight... | |
 | David Gardner, Tom Gardner - Business & Economics - 2001 - 321 pages
...with hope. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln (who wrote his own speeches—novel idea!) asked, "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?" Long before, another great speaker, Cicero, wrote, "While there's life, there's... | |
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? 
