...one class of people has a right to rule other classes. As Lincoln declared in his reply to Douglas, " No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Two questions may come up at once when this is Why the said. Did our Fathers think this applied to...

...dangerous and universal experiment of self-determination, and the superb theorem of Abraham Lincoln — " No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent " — has something in it that surpasses the lonely Olympianism of Nietzsche. Obedience to the priest,...

...moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another." Again he said, "What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." No argument could give any stronger support to the right of secession than this argument in favor of...

...of government and that expressed by German leaders. We quote just two or three samples : Lincoln : No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. My rightful masters, the American people. Nothing stamped with the divine image and likeness was sent...

...Lincoln. (Refer to If If 49, 89.) „ Learn the laws and obey them. Revolutionize through the ballot box. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. It has been said of the world's history hitherto that "might makes right"; it is for us and for our...

...the people who inhabit it. For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to change. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men are better than gold. Nowhere in the...

...leads each man to regard the other man's life as a sacred thing. Hence the democratic spirit holds that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other man's consent. Upon that basis political democracy is built. The spirit of democracy regards...

...theory of democracy. As the author of political phrases and aphorisms, he is equalled only by Jefferson. "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent" applies the principle of democracy to the fact of slavery. "When the white man governs himself, that...

..."government of the people, by the people, for the people" ; and defended it by the assertion, already quoted, that "no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." More concretely, Democracy implies the choosing of legislators and executives by the people. In an...

...despotism." "If the negro is a man, then my ancient faith teaches me that all men are created equal." "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." And he just lit into slavery that day. "I hate it," he said. "I hate it because it is a monstrous injustice."...