 | Paul Leicester Ford - United States - 1889 - 214 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. . . . Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
 | United States - 1889 - 242 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. . . . Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible : the rule of a minority as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...that Constitutional questions are to be decided by tbe Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 540 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism hi some form is all that is left. I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible;...must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to the suit, as to the object of that suit; while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...docs, of necessity, fly to nnnrcliy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all I h.it is left. " I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions arc to... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that rejecting the minority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form, is all that is left. . . . One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...anarchy or despotism in some form, is all that is left." LETTER TO HON. REVERDY JOHNSON, THEN AT NEW ORLEANS, JULY 26, 1862. " The people of Louisiana — all... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule. of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. H; I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Citizenship - 1895 - 376 pages
...does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible....anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. — Abraham Lincoln. The faith of our people in the stability and permanence of their institutions... | |
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Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. 
