 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 172 pages
...jury too frequently has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. ... 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 danger [that temporary powers would... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 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... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - Theology - 1866 - 556 pages
...raising of troops and encouraging desertion — Mr. Lincoln said to a deputation of Albany Democrats, " 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 for a well one. Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meeting that... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...the present, and those of a period of profound peace and public security. " I can no more," he said, "be persuaded that the Government* can constitutionally...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... | |
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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... 
