 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - 262 páginas
...have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with .equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by an extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - 1996 páginas
...people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own...retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by an extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four... | |
 | Glen E. Thurow - 1976 - 146 páginas
...reliance upon the great tribunal of the American people in the First Inaugural, Lincoln goes on to say, "While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 páginas
...have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own...intervals. While the people retain their virtue, and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - 1996 - 486 páginas
...people remain patient, and true to themselves, no man, even in the presidential chair, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years."24 If nothing else, the sequence of these two statements would seem to indicate that in Lincoln's... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 páginas
...have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own...virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - 1992 - 692 páginas
...intervals. While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the...Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there 388 be an object to hurry any of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately,... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - 1993 - 272 páginas
...servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return ofthat little to their own hands at very short intervals....virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...Appendix, p. A1493. Not found in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953). 735 While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.... | |
 | John V. Denson - 1997 - 494 páginas
...reassurance: "While the people retain their virtue, and vigilence [sic], no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years." His Presidency posed no threat to the old Republic as embodied in the Constitution, he promised. And... | |
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By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While... 
