...fly to anarchy or to despotism.... The chief magistrate derives all his authority from the people.... His duty is to administer the present government,...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil...

...LUTHER KING, JR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Justice is nothing else than love felt by the wise. LIEBNIZ Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? ABRAHAM LINCOLN To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of people. ABRAHAM LINCOLN...

...fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose, but the Executive as such has nothing to do with it....equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal...

...the terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves, also, can do this if they choose ; but the Executive, as such, has nothing to do with...better or equal hope in the world? In our present différences, is either party without faith of being in the right ? If the Almighty Ruler of nations,...

...to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose but the Executive as such has nothing to do with it....equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal...

...fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this also if they choose; but the executive, as such, has nothing to do with...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. We must keep firmly in mind the distinction between the natural right of revolution and the positive...

...cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. . . . Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal...

...closing paragraphs, where he focuses on the reaction of his audience to his preceding argument. He asks, "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?"100 This follows his earlier defense of the Constitution as offering the best hope for those...

...'"Repining Over an Irrevocable Past': The Ceremonial Orator in a Defeated Society, 1865-1900." In Rhetoric of the People: "Is There Any Better or Equal Hope in the World?," edited by Harold Barrett, 273301. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi NV, 1974. Braden, Waldo W, and Harold...

...with hope. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln (who wrote his own speeches—novel idea!) asked, "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?" Long before, another great speaker, Cicero, wrote, "While there's life, there's hope." The reverse...