 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 pages
...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 a limb. I felt...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,... | |
 | William Harrison Lambert - 1899 - 32 pages
...responsibilities by acts which he believed would conduce to the great end that he had in view. " I feel that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...or wrong I assumed this ground, and now avow it." Acting upon this theory, whilst he had abstained from striking at slavery as an evil in itself and... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1899 - 482 pages
...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 a limb. I felt...otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indisBy ABRAHAM LINCOLN (18091865). This is a very clear presentation of President Lincoln's attitude... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Political science - 1899 - 440 pages
...War. The strengthening of executive authority was well expressed by Lincoln in 1864 when he wrote " that measures otherwise unconstitutional, might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation." It is evident that executive power thus interpreted is without limits, a possibility which... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 pages
...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 a limb. I felt that measures I The three words in brackets are Lincoln's, the rest Chase's. See Warden's Chase, p. 513; on the making... | |
 | Bookbinding - 1900 - 308 pages
...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 a limb. I felt...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution, ifj to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Joseph Hodges Choate - 1901 - 48 pages
...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 a limb. I felt...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong, I assumed this ground and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - Political science - 1902 - 570 pages
...taken into account. President Lincoln in a famous letter once said: " Measures otherwise constitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." He in substance declares that he had to violate the Constitution in order to save it — violate it... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - Political science - 1902 - 590 pages
...must be taken into account President Lincoln in af amou8 ^ -Measures otherwlse constitutional come lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." He in substance declares that he had to violate the Constitution in order to save it — violate it... | |
 | Charles Edward Merriam - Political Science - 1903 - 392 pages
...as it exists behind the Constitution. This idea was expressed by Lincoln, when he made the assertion that " measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...Constitution, through the preservation of the Nation." l Evidence of the same spirit is given by the statement of Fisher that, "if the Union and the government... | |
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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 a limb. I felt that measures otherwise... 
