 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...their Government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask, " Is there in all republics this inherent and...Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of ite own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? So viewing the issue, no choice was left... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and...the war power of the government; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. It may be affirmed without extravagance... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and...the war power of the government; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. It may be affirmed without extravagance... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Slavery - 1903 - 500 pages
...their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal...out the war power of the government and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation. Mr. Lincoln in a few paragraphs exposed... | |
 | Henry William Elson - History - 1904 - 1022 pages
...can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes. ... Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? " That the President no longer thought of compromise is clear from his statement that " no popular... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and...the war power of the government ; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation. The call was made, and the response... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...recognize that he did not start the war but had war forced on him. After the attack, he told the Congress, "no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation." A People's Contest .he attack... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 3, p. 339. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? "Message to Congress in Special Session," July 4, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - History - 1997 - 538 pages
...their government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask : 'Is there, in all republics, this inherent and...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"'22 Reviewing for Congress the attitude of foreign powers toward the Civil War, Lincoln... | |
 | Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...their Government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"'' 2 * Lincoln, "First Inaugural Address," supra note 26, at 264-265. 2 "Id. '"Id., at 270, 271. " Lincoln,... | |
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? 
