 | Ward Hill Lamon - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 612 pages
...treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined tu cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...War and with reference to the Texan revolt against Mexico, that "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and...right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."48 This sounds very much like the pre-1800 Jefferson, who saw the liberties of the people depending... | |
 | John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...strong endorsement of the right of secession in 1847 as follows: Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. 1 1 After the election of 1860, the new Republican Party was very much a minority in both the House... | |
 | Elliott Abrams - Political Science - 2002 - 156 pages
...revolution by which Texas became an independent republic, he said: "Any people anywhere, being inclined, and having the power, have the right to rise up, and...which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world." Collected Works, 1:438-39. 12. Ibid., 1:348. 13. Ibid., 2:243. 14. Ibid., 3:247, 273. 15. Ibid., 2:267.... | |
 | Thomas Koys - History - 2002 - 244 pages
...from Mexico, for example, Lincoln defended the right of a people to revolt: 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... | |
 | Brian P. Janiskee, Ken Masugi - Political Science - 2004 - 400 pages
...Lincoln explained the nature of the right of revolution. "Any people anywhere," he said, "being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and...right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."3 Lincoln also considered the conditions in which the right of revolution might be exercised.... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 272 pages
...that Lincoln described in some detail. "Any people anywhere," according to Lincoln, "being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and...government, and form a new one that suits them better." He called this "a most valuable, — a most sacred right — a right, which we hope and believe, is... | |
 | Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude - Religion - 2003 - 1084 pages
...had said "just what the Socialist now say." He had then declared: "Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and...government and form a new one that suits them better. . . ,"16 His mother now fully satisfied, the son proceeds to describe how different departments of... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...terms that contrast with his later adamant stand against secession. He declared, "Any people . . . have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better. ... It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines, or old laws; but to break up both, and make... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - History - 2004 - 251 pages
...for the Spot Resolution seems tailor-made for the secessionists. If every people has the "most sacred right" to "rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better," then why not the South? And if any portion of a people can "revolutionize, and make their own" as "much... | |
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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,... 
