 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 страници
...the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...for its destruction, by force for its preservation. It may be affirmed without extravagance that the free institutions we enjoy have developed the powers... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 страници
...the earth. It forces us to ask, " Is there in all Republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties...the war power of the Government, and so to resist the force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation. The call was made, and the response... | |
 | United States. Adjutant-General's Office, Frederick T. Wilson - 1903 - 408 страници
...powers." " Under these circumstances," he adds, "no choice was left but to call out the war powers of the Government, and so to resist force, employed...for its destruction, by force for its preservation." Accordingly on the loth of April, 1861, he issued a proclamation calling upon the militia of the several... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1904 - 1022 страници
...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... | |
 | William Babcock Weeden - 1906 - 430 страници
...structure of popular government. " Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...but to call out the war power of the government." l He does not reply directly to these reasoned queries, but in substance invokes the voice of millions,... | |
 | 1906 - 336 страници
...Or, as he put it again : — " Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness ? Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? " Here his oath and his inclination became identified. Lincoln the President and Lincoln the civilian... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 354 страници
...message to Congress he defined it in admirably pointed language: "Must a government be of necessity too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ? Is there in all republics this inherent weakness ? " This question he answered in the name of the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 страници
...and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. 6352 Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? 6353 With high hope for the future, no prediction... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1999 - 337 страници
..."liberty" meant. In his 1941 Jackson Day address he quoted Lincoln's question to Congress in 1861: " 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?' " "Lincoln answered that question as Jackson had answered it — not by words, but by deeds," Roosevelt... | |
 | Howard Jones - 1999 - 268 страници
...government upon the earth"? "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"s1 Lincoln as president believed he had no choice but to exercise his war powers under the... | |
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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? 
