 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 unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 2771865Full view - About this book
 | Pilot guides - 1898 - 444 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 lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation." This is a doctrine without limits, in the mouth of a military commander... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Eight or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 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...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 594 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...wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures 1 The three words in brackets are Lincoln's, the rest Chase's. See Warden's Chase, p. 513; on the makingof... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1899 - 478 pages
...law. life and limb must be protected, yet often a i". 12o.— ..' ? , , . ../ , ',.; . For slavery, limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never see ch. xv, wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise above.— -tor J ° slavery... | |
 | William Harrison Lambert - 1899 - 32 pages
...responsibilities by acts which he believed would conduce to the great end that he had in view. " I feel that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. Right or wrong I assumed this... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Political science - 1899 - 440 pages
...War. The strengthening of executive authority was well expressed by Lincoln in 1864 when he wrote " that measures otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation." It is evident that executive power thus interpreted is without limits,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? * * * I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1900 - 758 pages
...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the natiou ami yet preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must lie amputated to save a life, but. a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures,... | |
 | Bookbinding - 1900 - 282 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 ;...might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed... | |
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