...He recognized the differences in ability and endowment between whites and blacks, but insisted that "no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Since slavery was destructive of the principle of self-government it could not survive in a democracy....

...Know Nothing, it will be the antagonist of the Democratic party. DOUGLAS: The Philadelphia Speech. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. . . . Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when...

...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...

...Abraham Lincoln, v. 10, p. 213. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). On an office seeker. DEMOCRACY 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. "Speech at Peoria,...

...be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another .... What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent" (Lincoln II, 265-66). Because "popular sovereignty" was, for Lincoln, "the sheet anchor of American...

...so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, (1809-1865) US 9 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, (1809-1865) US president. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953)....

...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...

...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...

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