 | John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 410 pages
...of his future career, but for no other reason, a brief paragraph is worth quoting. He says : — " Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her." XX "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...Government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...region depended not on any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. Any people anywhere being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 pages
...shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her." XX "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...Government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the... | |
 | New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1895 - 418 pages
...constitute a new nation ; and they did both. Abraham Lincoln himself had deliberately declared that " Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...existing government, and form a new one that suits them better/'f The South took him at his word. They said, " We will not have this man to reign over us."... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...they had just placed at the head of the Government. "Any people anywhere," Mr. Lincoin had said, " being inclined, and having the power, have the right...government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...they had just placed at the head of the Government. "Any people anywhere," Mr. Lincoin had said, " being inclined, and having the power, have the right...and shake off the existing government, and form a newone that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1898 - 682 pages
...interesting to note in view of his later career. It was in 1847 that Lincoln declared : " Any people anywhere have the right to rise up and shake off the existing...better. . . . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people . . . may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may... | |
 | Cuba - 1899 - 700 pages
...following its example. Abraham Lincoln in the House of Representatives on February 12, 1848, declared that "any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...government and form a new one that suits them better." This is a most valuable and sacred right and a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...men interested to misunderstand it. 77 78 (January 12, 1848, Speech in Congress— Barrett, p. 84.) Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the... | |
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Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to... 
