The refrain goes: And this is law, I will maintain, Unto my dying day, sir, That whatsoever king shall reign, I will be Vicar of Bray, sir! Becker's belief in the relativism of all moral and political truth rests upon the assumption ...
27. Lincoln , Speech in U.S. House of Representatives , January 12 , 1848 , Collected Works , vol . I , p . 438 . ... John Wilkes Booth , when he leaped onto the stage of Ford's Theatre , cried out " Sic semper tyrannis , " which was ...
This book represents the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by Jaffa, and continues his piercing examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln.
A historical account of the story behind the writing of the Gettysburg Address.
A collection of articles in magazine format, issued to accompany the book Abraham Lincoln: great American historians on our sixteenth president (New York: PublicAffairs, c2008), and related programming on C-Span.
However, the paradigm shift in federal-state relations occurred during the Reconstruction Era of 1863 to 1877. A New Birth of Freedom, by author W. Thomas Minahan, examines that paradigm shift that occurred in Ohio during this time.
The book presents a powerful case for reviewing and renewing the basis of our most important human rights.