 I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution.  Lincoln, the Politician - Page 168by T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know now to do myself. If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. If all earthly powers were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. ' ' ' My first impulse... | |
 | Marshall Everett - 1901 - 568 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. "I surely will not blame them for not doing what I...not know what to do as to the existing institution. "With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can sue-, ceed. Consequently, he who... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - 1901 - 516 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. Tf all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do aa to the existing institution. My... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1901 - 264 pages
...explanation. But Lincoln was a statesman. " If all earthly power were given me," he once said, ' ' I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. My first impulse would oe to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia — to their own native land. But if they were,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 pages
...it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame A em for not doing what I should not know how to do myself....not know what to do, as to the existing institution. When the white man governs himself, that is, self-government ; but when he governs himself, and also... | |
 | Elbert William Robinson Ewing - 1904 - 398 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. ] surely will not blame them for not doing what I should...how to do myself. If all earthly power were given to me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution."8™ In common with this realization... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 348 pages
...is very difficult to get rid of it any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I...myself. If all earthly power were given me, I should hot know what to do as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 410 pages
...(Bralmal (Emancipation. (Extract from speech at Peorla, Illinois, in 1854. Continued from preceding page.) If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution. My flrst impulse would be to free all the slaves, send them to Liberia — to their own native land. But... | |
 | 1908 - 702 pages
...very difficult to get rid of it, in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. /If all earthly pjjwer were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution.y My first impulse... | |
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