 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 6, p. 234. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). I can no more be persuaded that the government can constitutionally take no strong measure in time of rebellion, because it can be shown that the same could not be lawfully taken in... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - History - 1997 - 132 pages
...soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? I can no more be persuaded that the government can...good medicine for a sick man because it can be shown not to be good food for a well one. Nor am I able to appreciate the [supposed] danger . . . that the... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - History - 2000 - 544 pages
...Finally, Lincoln denied that his acts would prove to be a precedent for repression in time of peace: "I can no more be persuaded that the Government can...good medicine for a sick man, because it can be shown not to be good food for a well one."99 THE REJOINDER TO THE LINCOLN DEFENSE The Democratic press promptly... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?" Clearly not, and "the Constitution itself makes the distinction; and...constitutionally take no strong measures in time of rebellion . . . than I can be persuaded that a particular drug is not good medicine for a sick man, because it... | |
 | Edward A. Pollard - History - 2004 - 760 pages
...respects the eame, in cases of rebellion or invasion involving the public safety, as it is in times of profound peace and public security. The Constitution...good medicine for a sick man, because it can be shown not to be good food for a well one. Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meeting... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - History - 2004 - 758 pages
...wartime? And if we compromise our liberties in wartime, will we lose them forever? corpus provision]; and I can no more be persuaded that the Government...good medicine for a sick man, because it can be shown not to be good food for a well one. Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by [those who... | |
 | H. L. Pohlman - Law - 2004 - 340 pages
...silence the agitator, and save the boy, is not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy. ... I can no more be persuaded that the government can constitutionally take no strong measure in time of rebellion, because it can be shown that the same could not be lawfully taken in... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...respects the same, in cases of rebellion or invasion involving the public safety, as it is in times of profound peace and public security. The Constitution...good medicine for a sick man, because it can be shown not to be good food for a well one. Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meting... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...respects the same — in cases of rebellion or invasion involving the public safety, as it is in time of profound peace and public security. The Constitution...good medicine for a sick man, because it can be shown not to be good food for a well one. Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meeting,... | |
 | Dianne L. Durante - Art - 2007 - 312 pages
...invasion, the public safety may require it," is the provision which specially applies to our present case. I can no more be persuaded that the Government can...good medicine for a sick man, because it can be shown not to be good food for a well one. —Letter to the Albany Democratic Committee, June 12, 1863 About... | |
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The Constitution itself makes the distinction; and I can no more be persuaded that the Government can constitutionally take no strong measures in time of rebellion, because it can be shown that the same could not be lawfully taken in time of peace, than... 
