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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,... "
Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ... - Page 70
by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 842 pages
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volumes 25-26

Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...placed at the head of the Government. "Any people anywhere," Mr. Lincoin had said, " being inclined, and having the power, have the right to rise up and...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize and make their own...
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volumes 25-26

Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...placed at the head of the Government. "Any people anywhere," Mr. Lincoin had said, " being inclined, and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a newone that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope...
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A Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop

Robert Charles Winthrop - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 390 pages
...to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. . . . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize and make their own...
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A Students' History of the United States

Edward Channing - United States - 1898 - 682 pages
...interesting to note in view of his later career. It was in 1847 that Lincoln declared : " Any people anywhere have the right to rise up and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better. . . . Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people . . . may choose to exercise it....
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The American-Spanish War;: A History

Cuba - 1899 - 700 pages
...House of Representatives on February 12, 1848, declared that "any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...one that suits them better." This is a most valuable and sacred right and a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. It was by the exercise...
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Lincoln's Words on Living Questions: A Collection of All the Recorded ...

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...77 78 (January 12, 1848, Speech in Congress— Barrett, p. 84.) Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such a people that can, may revolutionize and make their...
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The American Hall of Fame: Famous Americans, Their Portraits, Biographies ...

Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...gave utterance to sentiments which read strangely now. Said he : "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. "Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: His Early History, Political Career, Speeches in ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 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...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion f such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own...
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The Advocate of Peace, Volumes 64-65

Arbitration (International law) - 1902 - 484 pages
...the right of revolution. On one occasion he spoke as follows: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize and make their own...
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Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 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...in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own...
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