 | George A. Malcolm - Law - 1916 - 824 pages
...the tendency of the United States been to extend territorial dominion beyond intervenother's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...more than self-government — that is despotism." m Every man, they argue, is entitled by natural law to be governed by the voice of ing seas, opportunities... | |
 | Maximo Manguiat Kalaw - Philippines - 1916 - 388 pages
...with Abraham Lincoln that : "No man is good enough to govern another without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is selfgovernment;...is more than self-government — that is despotism. Our reliance is in the laws of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which... | |
 | T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 248 pages
...but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government—that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient...connection with one man's making a slave of another. "Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by saying: 'The... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 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;...is more than self-government — that is despotism. Douglas had insisted, and very logically, that by the terms of the new legislation, it was a matter... | |
 | T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 252 pages
...gantlet of debate on the conquering doctrine of popular sovereignty: "When the white man," he said, "governs himself, that is self-government, \ but when...himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - Genealogy - 1927 - 334 pages
...to that extent a total destruction of self-governmenr 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." Again he said, "What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 pages
...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;...self-government, — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - American literature - 1921 - 446 pages
...another man without that other's consent" applies the principle of democracy to the fact of slavery. "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism." Finally, the Dred Scott case brought the slaveryissue to a climax,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Women - 1922 - 862 pages
...which we have condemned as not the source of rightful power. We all remember Lincoln's declaration that "when the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...governs himself and also governs another man, that is despotism." The exercise of any power of government not emanating from the consent of the governed,... | |
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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,... 
