 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1890 - 800 pages
...Eidered dangerous in the present crisis of our national history. You said : ' Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...government, and form a new one that suits them better. Nor is this right confined to cases where the people of an existing government may choose to exercise... | |
 | Robert Lowry, William H. McCardle - 1891 - 708 pages
...rights and promote their happiness. They believed with Abraham Lincoln that : "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...and form a new one that suits them better." "This," said Mr. Lincoln, "is a most valuable and most sacred right. A right which we hope and believe is to... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 250 pages
...plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her." XX "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world." XX "At what point... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her." XX "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world." XX "At what point... | |
 | New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1895 - 418 pages
...; and they did both. Abraham Lincoln himself had deliberately declared that " Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...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
...State-sovereignty will be found, logically speaking, absolutely irrefragable, since sovereignty must ot course reside somewhere, and it will be admitted by...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
...Lincoln in the House of Representatives on February 12, 1848, declared that "any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...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... | |
 | Kentucky State Historical Society - 1917 - 118 pages
...Congressional Globe, First Session, Thirteenth Congress, page 94) in which he said : "Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - 1904 - 294 pages
...subject, Lincoln said, however, of the revolution in Texas which preceded it : " Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right...most sacred right, — a right which, we hope and we believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people... | |
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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. 
