Selected Orations: A Collection of One Hundred Choice Speeches and SelectionsAlbert Mason Harris Cokesbury Press, 1924 - 439 pages |
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... soul , and melt the heart , and awaken to life ten thousand precious memories of the happy long ago , when the old - time darkeys used to laugh and sing , and when the old - time black " mammy " soothed the children to sleep with her ...
... soul , and melt the heart , and awaken to life ten thousand precious memories of the happy long ago , when the old - time darkeys used to laugh and sing , and when the old - time black " mammy " soothed the children to sleep with her ...
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... soul . Labor has ever made headway on its oppressors , though for centuries its progress was so slow as to be almost impossible of perception . In the last century , labor has come faster and made more progress than in 26 SELECTED ORATIONS.
... soul . Labor has ever made headway on its oppressors , though for centuries its progress was so slow as to be almost impossible of perception . In the last century , labor has come faster and made more progress than in 26 SELECTED ORATIONS.
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... soul . England has produced greater intellects than Alfred , but she has never produced a greater man . America has produced abler men perhaps than Washington , but she has never produced a more devoted and self - sacri- ficing patriot ...
... soul . England has produced greater intellects than Alfred , but she has never produced a greater man . America has produced abler men perhaps than Washington , but she has never produced a more devoted and self - sacri- ficing patriot ...
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... soul that has yielded to the seductions of evil loses something of its power of resistance . On the other hand every successful resistance of tempta- tion strengthens the man and weakens the power of evil . Human nature is not vile ...
... soul that has yielded to the seductions of evil loses something of its power of resistance . On the other hand every successful resistance of tempta- tion strengthens the man and weakens the power of evil . Human nature is not vile ...
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... souls of fire and valor and unshrinking nerve were left , and their careers were glorious ; but the finger of fate seemed to mark out with its bloody point the name of " CHANCELLORSVILLE " and the iron lips NEW DECLAMATIONS 45.
... souls of fire and valor and unshrinking nerve were left , and their careers were glorious ; but the finger of fate seemed to mark out with its bloody point the name of " CHANCELLORSVILLE " and the iron lips NEW DECLAMATIONS 45.
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Page 106 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Page 323 - Mr President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Page 172 - Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 323 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. 2. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Page 5 - 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 179 - What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell! — what brilliant broken plans, what baffled high ambitions, what sundering of strong warm manhood's friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household ties! Behind him a proud, expectant nation, a great host...
Page 242 - For, whether in midsea or among the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck must mark at last the end of each and all. And every life, no matter if its every hour is rich with love and every moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy, as sad, and "deep, and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death.
Page 309 - This hour's work Will breed proscriptions! Look to your hearths, my Lords! For there, henceforth, shall sit, for household gods, Shapes hot from Tartarus ! — all shames and crimes ! Wan Treachery, with his thirsty dagger drawn ; Suspicion, poisoning his brother's cup ; Naked Rebellion, with the torch and axe, Making his wild sport of your blazing thrones ; Till Anarchy comes down on you like night, And Massacre seals Rome's eternal grave.
Page 350 - If we fail, it can be no worse for us. But we shall not fail. The cause will raise up armies; the cause will create navies. The people, the people, if we are true to them, will carry us, and will carry themselves, gloriously through the struggle. I care not how fickle other people have been found. I know the people of these colonies, and I know that resistance to British aggression is deep and settled in their hearts, and cannot be eradicated.
Page 331 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtue in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.