 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,...  Abraham Lincoln, the First American - Page 221by David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Goldwin Smith - 1893 - 366 pages
...their duty grew stronger when their State was invaded by Northern arms. Lincoln himself had said, " Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 412 pages
...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, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 pages
...region depended not on any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. Any people anywhere being inclined and having the...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
 | New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1895 - 418 pages
...constitute a new nation ; and they did both. Abraham Lincoln himself had deliberately declared that " Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...existing government, and form a new one that suits them better/'f The South took him at his word. They said, " We will not have this man to reign over us."... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - 1897 - 800 pages
...they had just placed at the head of the Government. "Any people anywhere," Mr. Lincoin had said, " being inclined, and having the power, have the right...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - 1897 - 800 pages
...they had just placed at the head of the Government. "Any people anywhere," Mr. Lincoin had said, " being inclined, and having the power, have the right...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... | |
 | Edward Channing - 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.... | |
 | 1899 - 700 pages
...following its example. Abraham Lincoln in the House of Representatives on February 12, 1848, declared that "any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...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 of this right... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 pages
...men interested to misunderstand it. 77 78 (January 12, 1848, Speech in Congress— Barrett, p. 84.) Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right... | |
 | Marshall Everett - 1901 - 568 pages
...Mexican War, and referring to Texas, gave utterance to sentiments which read strangely now. Said he : "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...that suits them better. "This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. "Nor is this... | |
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