...curtailment of civil liberties in wartime would establish precedents fatal to liberty in peacetime "than I am able to believe that a man could contract...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life."17 Lincoln's two letters on civil liberties were published...

...public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus throughout the indefinite peaceful future which...upon them during the remainder of his healthful life. (320-21) Lincoln's claim that his behavior was constitutional also was grounded in his view of his...

...public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and Habeas corpus throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them." He could not believe that, he said — once again the homely analogy — any more than he could believe...

...rebellion would be followed in the peaceful postwar future. This argument, he suggested, was like saying "that a man could contract so strong an appetite for...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life." Lincoln considered his letter to Corning the best state...

...public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and Habeas Corpus, throughout the indefinite peaceful future...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life. Letter to Erastus Corning and Others, [June 12,] 1863,...

...the law of evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus throughout the indefinite peaceful future . . . any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite for emetics [agents that cause vomiting] curing temporary illness as to persist in feeding upon them during the...

...loss of "Public Discussion, the Liberty of Speech and the Press" in the peaceful future than he could "believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite...feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life."137 The limits of Lincoln's compelling metaphor appeared in the arrests of the critics of World...

...necessary to a war situation set precedents for peacetime, saying that this was equivalent to the argument "that a man could contract so strong an appetite for...during temporary illness, as to persist in feeding on them through the remainder of his healthful life."74 The Corning letter, to Lincoln's gratification,...

...the right of Public Discussion, the Liberty of Speech and the Press, . . . throughout the indefmite peaceful future, which I trust lies before them, any...feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life."1 At almost exactly the moment Lincoln was circulating his reply to the Albany Resolves, Ohio...

...public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and Habeas corpus, throughout the indefinite peaceful future...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life. Source: Letter from A. Lincoln to Erastus Corning, June...