 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...Mexican War, and referring to Texas, gave utterance to sentiments which read strangely now. Said he : "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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 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... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1902 - 484 pages
...repeatedly asserted in most emphatic terms the right of revolution. On one occasion he spoke as follows: "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... | |
 | Kentucky State Historical Society - Kentucky - 1917 - 118 pages
...in the Appendix to the Congressional Globe, First Session, Thirteenth Congress, page 94) in which he said : "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having...government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 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... | |
 | Edgar Lee Masters - Statesmen - 1904 - 246 pages
...observance of the fugitive slave clause of the constitution. In 1848 Mr. Lincoln said in congress: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...suits them better. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - Political science - 1904 - 296 pages
...connection with this subject, Lincoln said, however, of the revolution in Texas which preceded it: " 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 we believe, is to liberate... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - Political science - 1904 - 276 pages
...connection with this subject, Lincoln said, however, of the revolution in Texas which preceded it : " 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 we believe, is to liberate... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - Political science - 1904 - 294 pages
...connection with this subject, Lincoln said, however, of the revolution in Texas which preceded it : " 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 we believe, is to liberate... | |
 | Charles Landon Carter Minor - Booksellers and bookselling - 1904 - 242 pages
...(Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 76) copies from a speech made by Lincoln in Congress, January 12, 1848, "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... 
