 Presidents serve us as inspirations, and they also serve us as warnings. They provide bad examples as well as good. The nation, the Supreme Court has said, has "no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to...  Congressional Serial Set - Pagina 421945Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Edward McPherson - 1871 - 678 pagini
...endure together; the antagonism is irreconcilable, and in the conflict one or the other must perish. This nation, as experience has proved, cannot always...humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of tho Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty, and contempt of law, may... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1871 - 670 pagini
...irreconcilable, and in the conflict one or the other must perish. This nation, as experience has proved. OIL not institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends oi рттст, with hatred of liberty, and contempt of b'v, may fill the place once occupied by Washington... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1875 - 664 pagini
...endure together; the antagonism is irreconcilable, and in the conflict one or the other must perish. This nation, as experience has proved, cannot always...of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power v with hatred of liberty, and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln;... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1880 - 662 pagini
...endure together; the antagonism is irreconcilable, and in the conflict ont1 v the other must perish. This nation, as experience has proved, cannot always...right to expect that it will always have wise and liur.i^n» rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 618 pagini
...it in the opinion of the court in the Milligan case : " Wicked men ambitious of power," he said, " with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill...place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln, and if > Lincoln, Complete Works, vol. ii. p. 347 ct seq. this right is conceded [that of a commander in a... | |
 | Philippines. Supreme Court - 1907 - 984 pagini
...the case of Ex parte Milligan (4 Wallace 2, 125) : "This nation, as experience has proved, can not always remain at peace, and has no right to expect...the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln." With the exception of one case decided by the supreme court of Idaho, no authorities are presented... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 pagini
...it in the opinion of the court in the Milligan case : " Wicked men ambitious of power," he said, " with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill...place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln, and if * Lincoln, Complete Works, vol. 1i. p. 847 et seq. * The letter to the Ohio committee is printed, ibid.,... | |
 | Morris Friedman - 1907 - 260 pagini
...during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the places once occupied by Washington and Lincoln; and if this right (the right of the executive and his... | |
 | De Alva Standwood Alexander - 1909 - 592 pagini
...justification, found great favour with his party, but the danger Seymour apprehended lay in the precedent. "Wicked men ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law," said Justice Davis of the United States Supreme Court, in deciding a case of similar character, " may... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Victor L. Berger Investigation - 1919 - 2212 pagini
...1866, was determined in 1866, and is reported in 71 US : This Nation, as experience has proved, can not always remain at peace, and has no right to expect...of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place one? occupied by Washington and Lincoln ; and if this right is conceded, nnd the calamities of war... | |
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