 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...government, as it came to , w hjs hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. ( Wliy should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate...people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world I In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the rignt ? If the Almighty... | |
 | William James Potter - Sermons, American - 1895 - 474 pages
...the conflict, the key-note of democratic faith and assurance is sounded. "Why," said the President, "should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate...faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of events, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South,... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...to fix terms for the separation of the States. His duty is to administer the present government as it came to his hands, and to transmit it unimpaired...there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate j ustice of the people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 794 pages
...the Executive as such has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired...to his successor. Why should there not be a patient conf1dence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...as such, has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present government as it came into his hands, and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor. Why should there not be patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the... | |
 | Charles Richmond Henderson - Social problems - 1898 - 442 pages
...even I, humble as I am, cannot fail to carry the ship of state safely through the storm." And again: " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? " The occupation of a common territory is the physical basis of a united society, a Folk. Occupation... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 1152 pages
...for the separation of the states. His duty is to administer the present government as it came into his hands, and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil... | |
 | Eltweed Pomeroy - Legislation - 1900 - 132 pages
...and Lincoln. Jefferson said: "I am not of those who are afraid to trust the people." Lincoln said: "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...executive, as such, has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor. (August 26, 1863, Letter to James C. Conkling— Herndon, p. 552.) I freely acknowledge myself the... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...such, has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present Government, as it came to 375 his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him,...equal hope in the world? In our present differences 380 is either party without faith of being in the right ? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His... | |
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? 
