 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 106 pages
...message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language : " Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness ? " This question he answered in the name of the great... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...same people — can or can not maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. . . . So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call...for its destruction, by force for its preservation. This was not Mr. Lincoln's view alone. It was the view of the North. And when, on April 15, he issued... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...same people — can or can not maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. . . . So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call...for its destruction, by force for its preservation. This was not Mr. Lincoln's view alone. It was the view of the North. And when, on April 15, he issued... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 pages
...integrity against its own domestic foes. "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? It might seem, at first thought, to be of little difference whether the present movement at the South... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 718 pages
...on the earth. It forces iis to ask, Is there in all Republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties...resist force employed for its destruction by force employed for its preservation. . . ." Having reached this solid and unyielding foundation of a united... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 750 pages
...earth. It compelled the question: "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" Viewing the issue in this light, the President had no choice but to call out the war power of the... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 pages
...earth. It compelled the question: "Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" Viewing the issue in this light, the President had no choice but to call out the war power of the... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1901 - 264 pages
...earth. It forces us to ask, ' Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? ' ' Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? ' " Lincoln was only enforcing here just such ideas of self-government as, during all his life, he... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...inherent and fatal weakness ?" Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of ite own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence...the war power of the Government, and so to resist the force employed for its destruction by force for ite preservation. The call was made, and the response... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...for its destruction, by force for its preservation. It may be affirmed without extravagance that the free institutions we enj oy have developed the powers... | |
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? 
