 | William Jennings Bryan - Silver question - 1896 - 658 pages
...of the moment. I read to you from a State paper — from the inaugural address of Abraham Lincoln: I do not forget the position assumed by some that Constitutional questions are to bo decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...supremely a representative of the nation's accumulated common sense. He said in his first inaugural : " I do not forget the position assumed by some that...decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such questions must be binding upon the parties to that suit, while they are also entitled to very high... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1897 - 504 pages
...to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholy inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle,...anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. * * * * Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. * * * The rule of a minority as a permanent arrangement is wholly inadmissible;...anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. 48 (February 14, 1861, Speech at Steubenvl11e, Ohio— Complete Works, Vol. I. p. 677.) If the majority... | |
 | Eltweed Pomeroy - Legislation - 1900 - 132 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....or despotism, in some form, is all that is left." — Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural. "Not the centralization, but the diffusion of power is... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 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,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 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;...I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any ease, upon the parties to a suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 pages
...Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmisible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy...Supreme Court: nor do I deny that such decisions must l*. binding, in any case, upon the parties t» a suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 638 pages
...single instance in which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. . . . I do not forget the position assumed by some, that...decisions 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 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...do not forget the position, assumed by some, that consti133 tutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court ; nor do I deny that such decisions... | |
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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. 
