 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 - 1890Full view - About this book
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1892 - 880 pages
...humanity and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it developes itself. It is the same spirit that says, 'You work...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... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 280 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 George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 528 pages
...or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed. m&., CHAP. vin. have established. It is alike valuable...principle, Lincoln declared it " the most arrant Quixotism CHAP. vm. that was ever enacted before a community. . . Does he mean to say that he has been devoting... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 522 pages
...of his individual sentiments on the subject, or only of the national policy he desires to CHAP. vni. have established. It is alike valuable for my purpose....principle. As to the vaunted popular sovereignty principle, l.iiirnlnUouglas Debates, pp. 233-4. Lincoln declared it " the most arrant Quixotism CHAP. vin. that... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 530 pages
...carefully excludes the idea that there is anything wrong in it. I.inoolnUouglas Debates, pp. 233-4. That is the real issue. That is the issue that will...principle, Lincoln declared it " the most arrant Quixotism CHAP. vm. that was ever enacted before a community. . . Does he mean to say that he has been devoting... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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