 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 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 ite own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? So viewing the issue, no choice was left... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 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,...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government; and so to... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Slavery - 1903 - 500 pages
...practically 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...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government and so to... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 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...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government, and so... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 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,...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government; and so to... | |
 | Henry William Elson - History - 1904 - 1022 pages
...can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. ... Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? " That the President no longer thought of compromise is clear from his statement that " no popular... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - Indiana - 1906 - 430 pages
...which involves the whole basis and structure of popular government. " Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government, of...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government." l He does... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 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,...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? " So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the government ; and... | |
 | Theology - 1906 - 336 pages
...successful appeal back to bullets ? Or, as he put it again : — " Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness ? Must a government, of...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? " Here his oath and his inclination became identified. Lincoln the President and Lincoln the civilian... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 354 pages
...message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language: "Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness ? " This question he answered in the name of the... | |
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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? 
