 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1876 - 454 pages
...Lincoln's first inaugural message he condenses a great deal of thought into very few words. Thus : — "Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be enforced between aliens easier than laws amony friends ? " In St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans we have,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1878 - 456 pages
...Lincoln's first inaugural message he condenses a great deal of thought into very few words. Thus : — "Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties b« enforced between aliens easier than laws among friends f " In St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - Performing Arts - 2001 - 1286 pages
...possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after sepa- 35 ration than before? Can aliens make treaties, easier than...always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than before?...always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again... | |
 | Edward Millican - History - 292 pages
...remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. . . . Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...faithfully enforced between aliens, than laws can between friends?"14 These are clearly the sentiments of Publius. In the twentieth century, the clearest... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...nothing. In 1861, hoping to discourage civil war, he had told his disgruntled southern countrymen: "suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old question[s] ... are again upon you." But, to... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 pages
...hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than before?...always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than before?...enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? (AL, 4:269) The reality of secession and the power of anti-amalgamation sentiment prompt Lincoln to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 3, p. 481. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again... | |
 | Fletcher Pratt - History - 1997 - 466 pages
...amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible to make that intercourse more advantageous after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? "But in your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous issue of civil... | |
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Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. 
