 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 458 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? 15y general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a lite, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 1892 - 772 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. '•Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Literature - 1892 - 790 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ;...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. "I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1897 - 792 pages
...the organic law. \Vas it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By Renerai law life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by In-coming indispensable to the... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 396 pages
...AG Hodges, April 4, 1864, N. and H., vi. 430 ; and see Lincoln to Chase, Sept. 2, 1863 ; ibid. 434. be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable 'to the... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Political parties - 1893 - 760 pages
...preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must bo protected, yet often a limb must bo amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1893 - 776 pages
...lose the nation atK. yet preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limh must he rr>tccted, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is n*.-vr wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 410 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
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