 | G. S. Boritt - 1994 - 418 pages
...political issue was and seemingly no earthly power could divert him.36 In private he might muse for example that "the legitimate object of government, is to do...community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities."... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 pages
...Most often quoted was the so-called Lincoln dictum, from a fragment on government usually dated 1854: "The legitimate object of government, is to do for...community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget - 1995 - 254 pages
...which government services truly are vital to society — and which are not. As Abraham Lincoln said: "The legitimate object of government is to do for...need to have done, but cannot do at all or cannot do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities." And I always add to Lincoln's words... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget - 1995 - 260 pages
...which government services are truly vital to society and which are not. As Abraham Lincoln once said: The legitimate object of government is to do for a...people whatever they need to have done but cannot do it all or cannot do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. I have always added,... | |
 | Mario Cuomo - 1996 - 208 pages
...basic ideas of what our government is and what we want it to do for us. Abraham Lincoln said it best: "The legitimate object of government is to do for...do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities." A simple formutation, but a profound one — government is the coming together of people... | |
 | Dr. H. - 1996 - 272 pages
...government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. (Barry Goldwater) The legitimate object of government is to do for a...do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. (Abraham Lincoln) Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst... | |
 | James T. Patterson - 1996 - 881 pages
...in a statement of Abraham Lincoln's that he liked to repeat: "The legitimate aim of govemment is to to do for a community of people, whatever they need...for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 pages
...Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 1, p. 484. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). QOVERNMENT The legitimate object of government, is to do for...community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities.... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 pages
...philosophy. In July 1854, after resigning his state legislature post and losing his US Senate race, he noted: "The legitimate object of government, is to do for...for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget - 1997 - 308 pages
...Social Security fulfills what Abraham Lincoln described as the legitimate objective of government: "to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot dp so well for themselves in their separate and individual capacities". Social Security keeps some... | |
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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do. for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. 
