 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | Noah Brooks - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 386 pages
...as aliens, he argued that the whole matter in dispute should be left to all the people. He said : " While the people retain their virtue and vigilance,...the government in the short space of four years." Throughout his speech he pleaded earnestly for union, peace, and harmony ; but these arguments, it... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief ; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriousI ly injure the government in the short space of * four years.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief ; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief.; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | George Parker Winship - Cibola, Seven Cities of - 1894 - 182 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the peqple retain their virtue and vigilant, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...people have wisely given their public servants . ; but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their...the government in the short space of four years. MY COUNTRYMAN ONE AND ALL. My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this subject. Nothing... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 820 pages
...same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their...virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years. My... | |
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By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals.... 
