 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 326 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... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 660 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1907 - 114 pages
...devoting any to temper. THIRD \ do not argue — I beseech you to make the argument for yourself. FOURTH Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? APRIL FIFTH Lift artificial weights from all shoulders. SIXTH The purposes of the Lord are perfect... | |
 | Carl Schurz - Presidents - 1907 - 224 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... | |
 | Carl Schurz - Presidents - 1907 - 232 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 148 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 necessity, be too strong The Sacredness of a State for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - History - 1997 - 538 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 its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"'22 Reviewing for Congress the attitude of foreign powers toward the Civil War, Lincoln... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 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?"'' 2 * Lincoln, "First Inaugural Address," supra note 26, at 264-265. 2 "Id. '"Id., at 270, 271. " Lincoln,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. 6352 of Judgement Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness There people or too weak to maintain its own existence? 6353 With high hope for the future, no prediction... | |
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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? 
