The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 10F. P. Kaiser, 1901 |
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Page 3674
... common defense ; national re- nown ; all that is implied in the " blessings of liberty " ; these , and more , have been its fruits from the beginning to this hour . These have enshrined it in the hearts of the people ; and , before God ...
... common defense ; national re- nown ; all that is implied in the " blessings of liberty " ; these , and more , have been its fruits from the beginning to this hour . These have enshrined it in the hearts of the people ; and , before God ...
Page 3686
... common suffrage of the three nations , as well in their public par- liamentary capacity , as private stations , appeared to me a rule and measure approved of , and commanded by Parliament , for my action and deportment , though it met ...
... common suffrage of the three nations , as well in their public par- liamentary capacity , as private stations , appeared to me a rule and measure approved of , and commanded by Parliament , for my action and deportment , though it met ...
Page 3700
... common honesty been observed by those who won their way to popular confidence by their fierce denunciations of the alleged corruptions of former administrations ? I speak not as a parti- san , nor in the spirit of party . I trust I can ...
... common honesty been observed by those who won their way to popular confidence by their fierce denunciations of the alleged corruptions of former administrations ? I speak not as a parti- san , nor in the spirit of party . I trust I can ...
Page 3702
... common right to plunder while it lived . " Again , the chairman says : - " While it is no justification , the example has been set in the very departments of the Government . As a general thing none but favor- ites gain access there ...
... common right to plunder while it lived . " Again , the chairman says : - " While it is no justification , the example has been set in the very departments of the Government . As a general thing none but favor- ites gain access there ...
Page 3710
... Common- wealth as any of the rest , but dipped his dart in such a poison , that , as far as in him lay , it might never receive a cure . As by those abortive opinions , subscribing to the subversion of our property , before he heard ...
... Common- wealth as any of the rest , but dipped his dart in such a poison , that , as far as in him lay , it might never receive a cure . As by those abortive opinions , subscribing to the subversion of our property , before he heard ...
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Page 3953 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 3751 - ... free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Page 3808 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's government; made for the people; made by the people ; and answerable to the people.
Page 3749 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 3747 - I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you, in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
Page 3951 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 3951 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Page 3956 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid 1 We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that " except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Page 3746 - States, a decisive proof, how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them of a policy in the general government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi: they have been witnesses to the formation of two treaties, that with Great Britain and that with Spain, which secure to them every thing they could desire, in respect to our foreign relations, towards confirming their prosperity.
Page 3754 - In relation to the still subsisting War in Europe, my Proclamation of the 22d of April 1793 is the index to my plan. — Sanctioned by your approving voice and by that of Your Representatives in both Houses of Congress, the spirit of that measure has continually governed me : — uninfluenced by any attempts to deter or divert me from it. After deliberate examination with the...