 | Howard Jones - Political Science - 1999 - 268 pages
...and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth"? "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government,...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"s1 Lincoln as president believed he had no choice but to exercise his war powers under the... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - History - 1999 - 337 pages
..."liberty" meant. In his 1941 Jackson Day address he quoted Lincoln's question to Congress in 1861: " 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?' " "Lincoln answered that question as Jackson had answered it — not by words, but by deeds," Roosevelt... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...Southern states puts this very possibility into question, as though such "a government of necessity [must] be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence." Whitman takes up these matters of political theory in his tract "The 18th Presidency!" which opens:... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of it's own people, or too weak to maintain it's own existence?" So viewing the issue, the administration... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...practically put an end to free government upon earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government,...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"63 After a lengthy discussion of the constitutional issue of secession, Lincoln returned... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...integrity, against its own domestic foes. ... It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a Government,...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"1 The epigraph is taken from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (New... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 2000 - 366 pages
...naming Madison, quoted him on the possibility of an "inherent and fatal weakness" in all republics. "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" The secession crisis dramatized the failure of the Enlightenment to come forth with knowledge as an... | |
 | David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Debra Reddin Van Tuyll - History - 610 pages
...obvious when the president, at the height of his confrontation with the Peace Democratic press, said: Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? Must l shoot a simple-minded boy who deserts, while... | |
 | Alan Charles Kors, Harvey Silverglate - Political Science - 1999 - 432 pages
..."profoundest problem confronting a democracy— the problem which Lincoln cast in a memorable dilemma: 'Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"'2 Posing the question that way virtually assured... | |
 | Marvin Eugene Wolfgang - Philosophy - 2002 - 430 pages
...police and the courts are designed to protect and maintain. Lincoln asked the question succinctly: "Must a government of necessity be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" I trust that our nation is sufficiently sensitive to the liberties of all to listen and to act, and... | |
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It forces us to ask, Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? 
