 | Charles Washington Moores - 1900 - 156 psl.
...soldiers. " Peace," he wrote, " does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping...from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost. And then there will be some black men who... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 516 psl.
...future — thanks to all. " Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon and come to stay ; and so come as to be worth the keeping...from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost. And there will be some black men who can... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 psl.
...future, — thanks to all. Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping...future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1991 - 552 psl.
...of It dial. balla, of Gmc origin; akin to OHG balla ball] 36 ballot ballot Abraham Lincoln insisted that "among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet . . . they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost." Etymologically speaking,... | |
 | R. J. Rummel - 320 psl.
...Economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967. CHAPTER 22 THE FREEDOM PRINCIPLE Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. (Abraham Lincoln's letter to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863) Free actors form a field; their relations... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 psl.
...successful appeal, back to bullets" (vol. 4, p. 439); and in a letter to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863, "There can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet" (vol. 6, p. 410). In The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (1905), there is a... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 psl.
...University Press (1953, 1990). Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping...future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take such... | |
 | Frances H. Kennedy - 1998 - 536 psl.
...Casualties: 1,515 US, 222 CS Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping...future time. It will then have been proved that, among free men, there can be no successßtl appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that they who take... | |
 | Louise Bachelder - 1997 - 76 psl.
...you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time. Among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and . . . they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost. Stand with anybody that... | |
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Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay ; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the... 
