 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 σελίδες
...the inhabitants of that area had engaged in a revolution against Mexico. "Any people anywhere . . . have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing...government, and form a new one that suits them better," he announced. "Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 σελίδες
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 1, p. 278. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...government, and form a new one that suits them better. Speech in United States House of Representatives: "The War with Mexico," January 12, 1848, reprinted... | |
 | Dr. H. - 1996 - 272 σελίδες
...change what does not work is one of the great principles of our system of government. (Richard Nixon) Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 1999 - 308 σελίδες
...mankind."13 In this, Reagan was in the tradition of Lincoln, who in 1848 invoked the Declaration to proclaim: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...existing government and form a new one that suits them. This is a most valuable and sacred right, which we hope and believe is to liberate the world."14 The... | |
 | Thomas H. Naylor, William H. Willimon - 1997 - 300 σελίδες
...Morality of Secession Early in his political career Abraham Lincoln supported the right to secede: Any people anywhere being inclined and having the...shake off the existing government, and form a new one which suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and... | |
 | Frederick L. Will - 1997 - 278 σελίδες
...time of the Mexican War Lincoln had urged that the right of any people, or portion of such people, "to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better ... is a most valuable, a most sacred right." Later as President, confronted by the secession of the... | |
 | African Association of Political Science - 1998 - 248 σελίδες
...Lincoln made a passionate speech on January 12 against the US invasion of Mexico in which he stated that any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world." Soviet Union, the right of people to overthrow an undemocratic regime is widely recognized as a democratic... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 σελίδες
...speech he had given in Congress in 1848 offered any clues. "Any people anywhere," Lincoln had said, "have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing...which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 σελίδες
...have his peculiar ambition. 6366 Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory. 6367 r of mankind. 7548 Paradise Lost Him the almighty...ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down T This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 σελίδες
...himself say in 1848, during the Mexican War and with reference to the Texan revolt against Mexico, that "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the...right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."48 This sounds very much like the pre-1800 Jefferson, who saw the liberties of the people depending... | |
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe,... 
