 | Campaign literature - 1900 - 568 pages
...man," said Abraham Lincoln, "is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also another man that is more than self-government — that is despotism." No one imagines for a moment... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 pages
...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government...connection with one man's making a slave of another. Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by saying : " The... | |
 | Moorfield Storey - Imperialism - 1901 - 56 pages
...other's consent. I say this is the leading principle, the sheet anchor of American republicanism. " When the white man governs himself, that is self-government...more than self-government, — that is despotism." I think that, upon comparing your position with Lincoln's, you must admit that you do not believe in... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 598 pages
...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he, too, shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...that is more than self-government. That is despotism. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent.... | |
 | American literature - 1901 - 694 pages
...impossible to be executed. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government — that is despotism. Lincoln knew that the tendency of war was to create classes, and he, with prophetic eye, saw that money... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - Charity - 1901 - 340 pages
...political life. Our "duty" to bear the "White Man's Burden" is to-day's refrain, but Lincoln tells us: "When the ^ white man governs himself, that is self-government;...himself and also/ governs another man, that is more than self-gov-l ernment: that is despotism." Lincoln knew no-i thing of the new "Duty" and new "Destiny,"... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame A em for not doing what I should not know how to do myself....men are created equal ;" and that there can be no moraj right la connection with one man's making a slave of another. Slave States are places for poor... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 606 pages
...doctrine of self-government. It was this understanding, this feeling, which taught Lincoln to write: "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government — that is despotism" ; and its philosophic corollary : "He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave." Abraham... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself ? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...connection with one man's making a slave of another. Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by saying: "The white... | |
 | Charles Edward Merriam - United States - 1903 - 392 pages
...government. " No man," said Lincoln, " is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."2 "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government...more than self-government — that is despotism." The whole argument from the right of the superior to enslave and oppress the inferior, he denounced... | |
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But if the Negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man,... 
