 Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise...  Readings in American Government and Politics - Page 69by Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 624 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Denton Jaques Snider - United States - 1906 - 676 pages
...revolution. Still violence had to be met by violence, and war brought him at last to the point of saying that "measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...Constitution through the preservation of the Nation." He was pushed to the point at which he saw that he had to violate the Constitution in order to save... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 pages
...and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never...wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures 1 The three words in brackets are Lincoln's, the rest Chase's. Sen Warden's Chase, p. 513; on the making... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1906 - 434 pages
...and yet preserve the constitution? I>y general law life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb * * 1 could not fee! that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the constitution if,... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1906 - 612 pages
...must be protected, yet often £' • / b ._- -i.-... — "" .....fl-.i,li-^t^i^.tj . f L a lirnFmust be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to "save a'fimBT~Trein.rIat>measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by be••!••• <t... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - 1908 - 584 pages
...Lincoln; his was an institutional spirit seeking to govern through Law and Constitution, even when he says that "measures otherwise unconstitutional, might become...Constitution through the preservation of the Nation." That is, he might have to violate the Constitution in part to save it as a whole (as in the Merryman... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1908 - 828 pages
...process of constant, Constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. l felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to... | |
 | James Morgan - 1908 - 510 pages
...slavery. The negro must be freed and called to the aid of the Union. Lincoln reasoned, "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." He must amputate slavery from the body of our institutions in order to save the government itself from... | |
 | Social sciences - 1897 - 818 pages
...that it grew in his mind to be, as the long struggle wore on. He came to feel, as he wrote in 1864, "that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation." This is a doctrine without limits, in the mouth of a military commander in time of war. It... | |
 | Joseph Hodges Choate - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 318 pages
...and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution if to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
 | Joseph H. Choate - 1910 - 318 pages
...and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never...could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution if to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the... | |
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