Famous American Statesmen & Orators, Past and Present: With Biographical Sketches and Their Famous Orations, Volume 6F.F. Lovell Publishing Company, 1902 |
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... duty is as sacred as its opportunity is real , and Americans never desert their duty . Konde The Republic could not retreat if it would ; whatever BEVERIDGE . 3 Beveridge, Albert J., an American politician and ...
... duty is as sacred as its opportunity is real , and Americans never desert their duty . Konde The Republic could not retreat if it would ; whatever BEVERIDGE . 3 Beveridge, Albert J., an American politician and ...
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... capital and labor better adjusted , —I answer : Has England's discharge of her duty to the world corrupted her politics ? Are not her cities , like Birmingham , the municipal models upon which we build our BEVERIDGE . 5.
... capital and labor better adjusted , —I answer : Has England's discharge of her duty to the world corrupted her politics ? Are not her cities , like Birmingham , the municipal models upon which we build our BEVERIDGE . 5.
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... duty golden in the end . And what of America ? With the twentieth cen- tury the real task and true life of the Republic begins . And we are prepared . We have learned restraint from a hundred years of self - control . We are in ...
... duty golden in the end . And what of America ? With the twentieth cen- tury the real task and true life of the Republic begins . And we are prepared . We have learned restraint from a hundred years of self - control . We are in ...
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... government of the ' American Republic . The Philippines are ours forever . Let faint hearts anoint their fears with the thought that some day American administration and American duty there may end . But BEVERIDGE . 7.
... government of the ' American Republic . The Philippines are ours forever . Let faint hearts anoint their fears with the thought that some day American administration and American duty there may end . But BEVERIDGE . 7.
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... duty there may end . But they never will end . England's occu- pation of Egypt was to be temporary ; but events , which are the commands of God , are making it perma- nent . And now God has given us this Pacific empire for civilized ...
... duty there may end . But they never will end . England's occu- pation of Egypt was to be temporary ; but events , which are the commands of God , are making it perma- nent . And now God has given us this Pacific empire for civilized ...
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Page 122 - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man : for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Page 320 - Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute: Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 74 - I am the bread of life. He that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth in Me shall never thirst.
Page 172 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 379 - I designed to have done the same thing again on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.
Page 217 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
Page 261 - I shall correct the procedure ; but that done, return with joy to that state of things, when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? I tender you the homage of my high respect.
Page 148 - He chose David also his servant : and took him away from the sheep-folds. 72 As he was following the ewes great with young ones he took him : that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 73 So he fed them with a faithful and true heart : and ruled them prudently with all his power.
Page 162 - Was freedom's home or glory's grave ! Shrine of the mighty ! can it be, That this is all remains of thee ? Approach, thou craven crouching slave : Say, is not this Thermopylse?
Page 36 - States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.