...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 of...

...men are created equal, and that there can be no moral right in one man making a slave of another." " No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." "The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether...

...Declaration of Independence in the closing campaign of the century. We hold, with Abraham Lincoln, that "no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government, but when he governs himself and also governs...

...themselves," sneered Douglas, " but they are not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes ! " " 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. This nation cannot...

...themselves," sneered Douglas, " but they are not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes ! " " 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. This nation cannot...

...other." That was his first principle, the Union undivided. His second principle was equally simple : "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Again Lincoln had shown his great courage. Many of his friends had asked him to change his speech,...

...other man, that is worse than self-government — that is despotism. What I do mean to say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against...

...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...

...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,...