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Page 43
... establish Government presupposes the duty of every indi- vidual to obey the established Government . All obstructions to the execution of the laws , all com- 20 binations and associations , under whatever plausible character , with the ...
... establish Government presupposes the duty of every indi- vidual to obey the established Government . All obstructions to the execution of the laws , all com- 20 binations and associations , under whatever plausible character , with the ...
Page 53
... establishing , with powers so disposed , in order to give trade a stable course , to define the rights of our merchants , and to enable the government to support them , conventional 10 rules of intercourse , the best that present ...
... establishing , with powers so disposed , in order to give trade a stable course , to define the rights of our merchants , and to enable the government to support them , conventional 10 rules of intercourse , the best that present ...
Page 60
... established , on foundations never hereafter to be shaken , its competency to govern itself . It was the extraordinary fortune of Washington , that , having been intrusted , in revolutionary times , with the supreme military command ...
... established , on foundations never hereafter to be shaken , its competency to govern itself . It was the extraordinary fortune of Washington , that , having been intrusted , in revolutionary times , with the supreme military command ...
Page 62
... established , illus- 25 trated , and brought into practice in the country of Washington . Gentlemen , for the earth which we inhabit , and the whole circle of the sun , for all the unborn races of man- kind , we seem to hold in our ...
... established , illus- 25 trated , and brought into practice in the country of Washington . Gentlemen , for the earth which we inhabit , and the whole circle of the sun , for all the unborn races of man- kind , we seem to hold in our ...
Page 67
... establish justice , insure domestic tranquillity , provide for the common defence , promote the general welfare , and secure the blessings of liberty . These were objects interesting , in the highest degree , to the whole country , and ...
... establish justice , insure domestic tranquillity , provide for the common defence , promote the general welfare , and secure the blessings of liberty . These were objects interesting , in the highest degree , to the whole country , and ...
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Page 44 - The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
Page 141 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 115 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 36 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 100 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 47 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a 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.
Page 131 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 40 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a constitution of 'government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns.
Page 35 - ... the happiness of the people of these states, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption, of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
Page 37 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.