 | Bookbinding - 1900 - 282 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Joseph Hodges Choate - 1901 - 48 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to...Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong, I assumed this ground and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - Presidents - 1902 - 476 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...possible to lose the Nation, and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...preserve the Constitution?" And if that was too abstract, he explained so that no one could misunderstand: "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." So it was in the Civil War. And so it was in the Second World War. Schlesinger, the scholar who gave... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - History - 1995 - 493 pages
...constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? ... I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit... | |
 | Maeva Marcus - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 422 pages
...general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation." (Note, Lincoln to A. G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, Nicolay and Hay, Complete Works of Abraham... | |
 | Charles J. McClain - History - 1994 - 528 pages
...war successfully."80 and (2) President Lincoln's homely words "by general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb/'81 "This same argument of "prevention of conflict" was presented to the Supreme Court in Buchanan... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - History - 1993 - 480 pages
...the height of what must still be considered our greatest national emergency, "life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save...a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb."17 In assessing this philosophy, we should recognize the difficult choices which confronted the... | |
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Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional... 
