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... hope , that a proper organization of the whole , with the auxiliary agency of 20 governments for the respective subdivisions , will afford a happy issue to the experiment . It is well worth a fair and full experiment . With such ...
... hope , that a proper organization of the whole , with the auxiliary agency of 20 governments for the respective subdivisions , will afford a happy issue to the experiment . It is well worth a fair and full experiment . With such ...
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... hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish ; that they will control the usual current of the passions , or prevent our nation from running the course , which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations . But , if ...
... hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish ; that they will control the usual current of the passions , or prevent our nation from running the course , which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations . But , if ...
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The Lake English Classics WASHINGTON WEBSTER AND LINCOLN. ism ; this hope will be a full recompense for the solici tude for your welfare , by which they have been dictated . 44 How far in the discharge of my official duties , I have been ...
The Lake English Classics WASHINGTON WEBSTER AND LINCOLN. ism ; this hope will be a full recompense for the solici tude for your welfare , by which they have been dictated . 44 How far in the discharge of my official duties , I have been ...
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... hope , that my country will never 15 cease to view them with indulgence ; and that , after forty - five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal , the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion ...
... hope , that my country will never 15 cease to view them with indulgence ; and that , after forty - five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal , the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion ...
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... hope of success would have been certain , had it not been that there did exist throughout the country , in a most extraordinary degree , an unwavering trust in him who stood at the helm . I remarked , Gentlemen , that the whole world ...
... hope of success would have been certain , had it not been that there did exist throughout the country , in a most extraordinary degree , an unwavering trust in him who stood at the helm . I remarked , Gentlemen , that the whole world ...
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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.