 They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings.  Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 150by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 470 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...of his individual sentiments on the subject, or only of the national policy he desires to CHAP. vin. have established. It is alike valuable for my purpose....principle. As to the vaunted popular sovereignty principle, Lincoln declared it " the most arrant Quixotism cau•. vni. that was ever enacted before a community.... | |
 | William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit which says, 'You work and toil and earn bread and I'll eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether...another race, it is the same tyrannical principle." The Cooper Institute speech was one of his greatest efforts, and was prepared with much care : a production... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I will eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes — whether...to bestride the people of his own nation, and live upon the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether...another race, it is the same tyrannical principle." * The excitement in Illinois mounted up to fever heat. Never had there been such a campaign. That of... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - Presidents - 1892 - 416 pages
...shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says: ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether...another race, it is the same tyrannical principle." It is unnecessary, I presume, to insert here the seven questions which Douglas propounded to Lincoln... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 396 pages
...shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says: ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether...another race, it is the same tyrannical principle." It is unnecessary, I presume, to insert here the seven questions which Douglas propounded to Lincoln... | |
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...shape it developes itself. It is the same spirit that says, 'You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether...another race, it is the same tyrannical principle." To which Judge Douglas replied: — "He [Lincoln] says that he looks forward to a time when slavery... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 564 pages
...develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.1 No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the...another race, it is the same tyrannical principle." " The excitement in Illinois mounted up to fever heat. Never had there been such a campaign. That of... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether...apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tArrannical principle." 1 The excitement in Illinois mounted up to fever heat. Never had there been... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether...as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the game tyrannical principle." a The excitement in Illinois mounted up to fever heat. Never had there... | |
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