The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 10F.P. Kaiser, 1899 - 111 pages The text of thousands of speeches from all historical periods through the 19th century arranged in alphabetical order. |
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Page 3673
... standing armies , the disuse of naval armament , and the utmost possible reliance on moral rather than on physical force . Cobden and Bright advocated this theory in England in con- nection with the agitation for universal free trade ...
... standing armies , the disuse of naval armament , and the utmost possible reliance on moral rather than on physical force . Cobden and Bright advocated this theory in England in con- nection with the agitation for universal free trade ...
Page 3686
... stand single , in the witness I am to give to this glorious cause , and to be left alone ( as in a sort I am ) , yet being upheld with the authority before asserted , and keeping myself in union and conjunction therewith , I am not ...
... stand single , in the witness I am to give to this glorious cause , and to be left alone ( as in a sort I am ) , yet being upheld with the authority before asserted , and keeping myself in union and conjunction therewith , I am not ...
Page 3696
... stand by you , if you do not know how to sustain yourselves ? Citizens ! were you but simple individuals , I could say to you : " Are you cowards ? Well , then ; abandon yourselves to the chances of events ; wait in your stupidity until ...
... stand by you , if you do not know how to sustain yourselves ? Citizens ! were you but simple individuals , I could say to you : " Are you cowards ? Well , then ; abandon yourselves to the chances of events ; wait in your stupidity until ...
Page 3698
... Standing , as I do , one of the humble representatives of the great valley of the Mississippi , we stand in a central point to invoke union , to invoke harmony , to invoke a compromise of conflicting opinions in the Democratic ranks ...
... Standing , as I do , one of the humble representatives of the great valley of the Mississippi , we stand in a central point to invoke union , to invoke harmony , to invoke a compromise of conflicting opinions in the Democratic ranks ...
Page 3699
... stand for absolute justice , willing to concede everything that is just to everybody else , only asking the same ... standing by all the constitutional rights and guarantees of our oppressed Southern brothers . I say to my Southern ...
... stand for absolute justice , willing to concede everything that is just to everybody else , only asking the same ... standing by all the constitutional rights and guarantees of our oppressed Southern brothers . I say to my Southern ...
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