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" The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves. "
Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths - Page 60
by Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 244 pages
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Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress

United States. Congress - Law - 750 pages
...he was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate. The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves." HEALTH AND WELFARE HOUSING...
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 1

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...can cultivate with his own hands, without buying it of any one ? The legitimate object of government is " to do for the people what needs to be done, but...effort^ do at all, or do so well, for themselves." There are many such things — some of them exist independently of the injustice in the world. Making...
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Early speeches, 1832-1856

Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 384 pages
...can cultivate with his own hands, without buying it of any one ? The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but...effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves." There are many such things — some of them exist independently of the injustice in the world. Making...
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Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Early speeches, 1832-1856

Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 pages
...can cultivate with his own hands, without buying it of any one ? The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but...effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves." There are many such things — some of them exist independently of the injustice in the world. Making...
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 1

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 pages
...can cultivate with his own hands, without buying it of any one 1 The legitimate object of government is " to do for the people what needs to be done, but...effort^ do at all, or do so well, for themselves." There are many such things — some of them exist independently of the injustice in the world. Making...
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Abraham Lincoln

Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...surging in his brain. He was arguing out for himself the proper scope of government, how it must " do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot by individual effort do at all, or do so well, for themselves." And he was setting over against...
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The Spirit of Democracy

Lyman Abbott - Democracy - 1910 - 244 pages
...is living under a despotism. But Abraham Lincoln also said : " The legitimate object of government is to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot by individual effort do at all, or do as well for themselves." When the people do collectively...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

abraham lincoln - 1910 - 694 pages
...capitalists should become laborers. He who held, in 1854, that "the legitimate object of government is 'to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot by idividual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves, would neither believe in the...
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Abraham Lincoln; the Tribute of a Century, 1809-1909: Commemorative of the ...

Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 664 pages
...legitimate object of government is 'to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves,' " would neither believe in the night-watchman theory of government which allows it to do nothing but...
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Abraham Lincoln, the Lawyer-statesman

John Thomas Richards - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 314 pages
...adhered to with unusual consistency throughout his life. He believed the object of government to be "to do for the people what needs to be done but which they cannot by individual effort do at all, or do so well for themselves." He declared that "In all that...
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