 | William Dean Howells - 1860 - 414 str.
...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government...connection with one man's making a slave of another. Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by saying : " The... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 878 str.
...slavery, than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that'it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory...faith teaches me that " all men are created equal j" and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another. Slave... | |
 | 1899 - 1078 str.
...with Abraham Lincoln that " No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government, that is despotism." With regard to the question of party organization by the anti-imperialists, the general opinion seemed... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 598 str.
...morals, but of "State rights," — a mere matter of local selfgovernment, — Mr. Lincoln replied, " When the white man governs himself, that is self-government,...is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism." It was on these opposing grounds that the two men took their stand for the battle of argument and principle... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1881 - 246 str.
...matchless definition of the political injustice* of slavery, applicable to all nations and ages : " When the white man governs himself, that is self-government...is more than self-government — that is despotism ; " his irrefutable statement of the natural right of every man "to eat. the bread, without leave of... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1881 - 246 str.
...his matchless definition of the political injustice of slavery, applicable to all nations and ages: " When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism ;" his irrefutable statement of the natural right of every man... | |
 | 1899 - 870 str.
...Abraham Lincoln once said: "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government — that is despotism. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us; our defence is in the spirit which... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 str.
...Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest. (Same speech.) When the white man governs himself, that is self-government...is more than self-government — that is despotism. (Same.) Slave States are places for poor white people to remove from, not to remove to; new free States... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 str.
...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself 1 When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. The... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 536 str.
...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself T When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. The... | |
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But if the Negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man,... 
