 It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 2771865Full view - About this book
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1903 - 198 pages
...Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it in my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath forbade me practically... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1905 - 378 pages
...the best of his ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution; and he did not feel that he might "take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power." Neither did he feel, however, that he could be said even to have tried to preserve the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 354 pages
...the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was...an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power. I understood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me practically... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 662 pages
...the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath, nor was...using the power. I understood, too, that, in ordinary and civil administration, this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary^ abstract judgment... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 pages
...the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was...get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understand, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was...get power, and break the oath in using the power. I understand, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge... | |
 | Carl Schurz - Presidents - 1907 - 232 pages
...the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was...an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power. I understood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me practically... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1907 - 236 pages
...107 best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was...an oath to get power, and break the oath in using that power. I understood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me practically... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. l could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that l might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power. l understood, too, that,... | |
 | Edgar Truman Brackett - 1908 - 338 pages
...the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Conatitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was...abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery * * * In telling .this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled... | |
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