| Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 pages
...terms of intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...terms of intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.) This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...intercourse are again upon you. THE PEOPLE. This country, with its institutions. belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the national... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 818 pages
...grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow...Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 820 pages
...of intercourse, are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I can not be ignorant of the fact that... | |
| Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 pages
...terms of intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that... | |
| Darryl M. Trimiew - Business & Economics - 1997 - 376 pages
...of rights and revolution, writing, "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." From Lincoln's "First Inaugural Address" (4 March 1861), in Lincoln's Stories and Speeches, ed. Edward... | |
| S. Nelson Drew - 1999 - 147 pages
...hands of the people." — Tench Coxe This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln "The best we can... | |
| Albert Fried - History - 1997 - 460 pages
...the masses, are those which declared: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the...can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." These words of Lincoln are but a paraphrasing... | |
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