 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 750 pages
...anarchy, or to despotism. Unanimity was impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, wholly inadmissible, so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form was all that was left. The President did not forget the position assumed by many, that constitutional... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects 0580 FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS it, does, of necessity, fly to aixarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1902 - 194 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Who83 ever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ;... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 460 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; 00 that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left.... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Oratory - 1904 - 508 pages
...essence of 2 5 anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Una- 30 nimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - Great events by famous historians - 1905 - 474 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 452 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...the only true sovereign, of a free people. Whoever reject! it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - African Americans - 1906 - 482 pages
...; a demonstration, irresistible as mathematics, that " the central idea of Secession is anarchy." " Unanimity is impossible, the rule of a minority, as...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left." In the address there is not one word of heat or bitterness ; it is all in the spirit of his words spoken... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular...rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible... | |
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Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign... 
