 | Elbert William Robinson Ewing - Slavery - 1904 - 398 pages
...Lincoln once defined this right which is paramount to all constitutions. While a member of Congress he said, "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having...right to rise up and shake off the existing government [or resist dangerous infractions of the fundamental agreement] and form a new one that suits them better.... | |
 | William Robertson Garrett, Robert Ambrose Halley - History - 1905 - 640 pages
...1848, on the floor of the House of Representatives, as reported in the Congressional Globe, Lincoln 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.... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1905 - 762 pages
...1848, on the floor of the House of Representatives, as reported in the Congressional Globe, Lincoln 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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 350 pages
...region depended not on any treatyfixed 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... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1905 - 690 pages
...his later career. It was in 1847 that Lincoln declared : " Any people anywhere have the right to rjse up and shake off the existing government, and form...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... | |
 | Albert Phelps - Louisiana - 1905 - 428 pages
...party, Abraham Lincoln, had declared some years before upon the floor of Congress, "Any people anywhere have the right to rise up and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better. . . . Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the... | |
 | Albert Phelps - Louisiana - 1905 - 438 pages
...party, Abraham Lincoln, had declared some years before upon the floor of Congress, "Any people anywhere have the right to rise up and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better. . . . Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the... | |
 | Cooking - 1906 - 1026 pages
...legal right. Lincoln himself, as late as 1848, thus expounded this doctrine, applying it to Texas: "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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...region depended not on any treatyfixed 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... | |
 | Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans - Georgia - 1906 - 660 pages
...said in a speech in the national house of representatives, on Jan. I 12, 1848 : "Any people any where, 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 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... 
