 Let every American, every lover of liberty, every wellwisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others.  America Faces the Future - Page 67by Durant Drake - 1922 - 339 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...fortify against it?" The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...thereby secure the foundation of free government, is in one sense "simple" — a matter of swearing "by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate...country; and never to tolerate their violation by others" (1.112). But the deeper motions of Lincoln's argument work from the conviction that dutiful words and... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - History - 2005 - 318 pages
...or die by suicide." Lincoln exhorted: "Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...in the least particular, the laws of the country." Let reverence for the Constitution and the laws "become the political religion of the nation."'14 Noteworthy... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...law, as the following quote illustrates: Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution... | |
 | David Saxe - History - 2006 - 223 pages
...of our government]?" Lincoln's answer: Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution... | |
 | Christopher Waldrep - History - 2006 - 304 pages
...fortify against it?" The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...dynamic recurrence to the nation's origins: Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution,...tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property,... | |
 | William Sanders Scarborough - History - 2006 - 557 pages
...utters the well remembered words: "Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher of his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violations by others"; and again, speaking of his... | |
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