 | Education - 1915 - 918 pages
...— one by one — each cast his vote. The words from Lincoln's first inaugural came to my mind : " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?" And theii those words with which his second inaugural closed: "A just and lasting peace among ourselves... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...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...Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, he on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and th.it justice will truly prevail,... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...present government as it came to his hands, and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successors. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...present differences, is either party without faith in being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of nations, with his eternal truth and justice be on your... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...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...not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice ol the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...to the people who inhabit it." " The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people." " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or any equal hope in the world?" These sentences were utterances of a faith within him. In the people... | |
 | Education - 1919 - 408 pages
...its perversion. They say with Lincoln: "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultinmte justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?" It is important to guard against hasty legislation. The initiative and referendum would defeat their... | |
 | Edwin Allison Schell - Evangelistic work - 1893 - 228 pages
...sovereign, and treated as such. Whether personally worthy or unworthy, his authority is respected. " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?" said Abraham Lincoln; and, after all, he voices the belief of this age of democracy, that there is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...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...differences is either party without faith of being in the rigntf If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...circumstances, favor, than rather oppose, a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon jt. ***** Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...without faith of being in the right ? If the Almighty Kuler of nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 174 pages
...power to avert it, except to neglect a Constitutional duty." • INAUGURAL ADDRESS, MARCH 4, 1861. " Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...is either party without faith of being in the right ?" • CONVERSATIONAL, 1861. " This is our own affair. It is a family quarrel with which foreign nations... | |
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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? 
