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"Auch ich bin Amerika" - Der "American Dream" in Gedichten Langston Hughes ... - Page 107
by Robert Elsemann - 2007 - 140 pages
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...to be as good as the average of people elsewhere. I do not say the contrary. What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle, — the sheet-anchor of American republicanism. . . . Slavery...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volume 64

Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...to be as good as the average of people elsewhere. I do not say the contrary. What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle, — the sheet-anchor of American republicanism. . . . Slavery...
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Abraham Lincoln: Tributes from His Associates, Reminiscences of Soldiers ...

1895 - 340 pages
...and will be bound by none. For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to change. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. I believe this Government cannot permanently endure half slave and half free. Gold is good in its place...
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The Present Crisis

Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 40 pages
...grim work began, and has gone on, and is going on. Who is responsible for it? Abraham Lincoln once said: "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs...
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The Arena, Volume 22

United States - 1899 - 806 pages
...become the real rulers they willingly grant self-government to others. In the words of Abraham Lincoln : "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent," and he added, "those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God...
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Columbia's Apostasy: With Other Poems and Essays ...

Robert Stevens Pettet - United States - 1899 - 52 pages
...diabolical task of suppressing human liberties while engaged in the murder and robbery of innocent peoples. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN. AMERICAN TREACHERY If there is any one thing more than another in the present...
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Private Smith at the Philippines: All Questions Relating to the Philippines ...

Marion Leonidas - Philippines - 1899 - 226 pages
...Handy—" Lincoln was one of the few really great and good men. Perhaps his greatest utterance was this: 4 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs...
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Locomotive Firemen's Magazine, Volume 27

Locomotives - 1899 - 822 pages
...and in consequen events, than can be gained by the stroke of the moment. It was Abraham Lincoln who said : No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself that is selfgovernment, but when he governs himself and also governs...
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Lincoln's Words on Living Questions: A Collection of All the Recorded ...

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...without that person's consent. 54 (October 1, 1854, Speech at Springfield, 11l.— Coffin, p. 145.) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs...
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Patriotic Eloquence Relating to the Spanish-American War and Its Issues

Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Spanish-American War, 1898 - 1900 - 382 pages
...Declaration of Independence in the closing campaign of the century. We hold with Abraham Lincoln, that " no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs...
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