 | James Allen Smith - Constitutional law - 1907 - 474 pages
...himself. In a speech made in the House of Representatives January 12, 1848, on "The War with Mexico," 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 most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate... | |
 | John Ambrose Price - African Americans - 1907 - 316 pages
...INCONSISTENT " MR. LINCOLN, in a speech made in the House of Representatives on the 12th of January, 1848, 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 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1907 - 114 pages
...duty. TWENTY- FOURTH If we have no friends, we have no pleasure. TWEN TY- FI FTH JUNE TWENTY- 5 IX TH Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...government and form a new one that suits them better. TWENTY- 5 EVENTH Our enemies want a squabble ; and that they can have if we explain; and they can not... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 384 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... | |
 | United States - 1907 - 794 pages
...through the period when the great emancipator was proclaiming the same doctrine in words like these: " Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and a most sacred right." A doctrine adhered to, fought for and preserved unimpaired... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...the right of revolution, with reference to the people of Texas. " Any people, anywhere," he said, " being inclined and having the power, have the right...government, and form a new one that suits them better." He spoke of this as a sacred right, and the right by which the liberation of the world is to be effected... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - India - 1927 - 1144 pages
...enjoy the fruit of your toil. The argument is the same and the bondage is the same." Still further : "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off an existing government which they deem unjust and tyrannical, and form a new one that suits them better.... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - 1911 - 748 pages
...Constitution. In 1848, Abraham Lincoln, publicly asserted that "any people whatever have the right to abolish the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right." William H. Se ward declared there was a higher law than... | |
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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... 
