...Civil War. His greatest hope was to keep the North and South together and "bind the nation's wounds." o "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." — Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States) When Lincoln said these words over a hundred...

...humanity of blacks and the immorality of slavery, Lincoln zeroed in on the issue of despotism by arguing "that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle — the sheet anchor of American republicanism." Slavery, he insisted,...

...Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. This is a world of compensations; and he who be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny...

...consent of the governed. We insist that the subjugation of any people is "criminal aggression." . . . We hold, with Abraham Lincoln, that "no man is good...govern another man without that other's consent." Document-Based Assessment Teacher Guide Page Document 1 The late nineteenth century was a time when...

...does not imply a simple majoritarianism. It must be the case, in Lincoln's words, following Locke, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. Harry V. Jaffa has long argued that the conception of equality expressed in the US Declaration of Independence...

...continue to be as good as the average of people elsewhere. I do not say the contrary. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle — the sheet anchor of American republicanism. Our Declaration...

...governs another man, that 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. "m In a letter written a year later, he feared the passing of the equality principle: When we were...

...and freedom" and another which said, "Abraham Lincoln defined the heart of democracy when he said, 'No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.'") A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, focusing on the anti-Soviet passages that had been censored,...

...was a man. Because the Negro was a man, there could be no moral right to the institution of slavery. "No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent." Since, Lincoln asserted, Douglas simply did not see the Negro as a human, he thereafter denied any...

...LYDIA A. STEVENS, Chairman Research Committee. "Keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom." "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." "This country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it." "Gold is good in its...