Wit, Wisdom and Eloquence of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including Eloquent Extracts, Witty, Wise, Pungent, and Truthful Sayings, and Oratorical Dissertations Concerning Home Life, Social, Civil, and Political Life, Addressed to All Classes of Persons and Especially to American CitizensRhodes & McClure, 1894 - 335 pages |
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... truth is to tell it yourself . Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker . -I intend to live that when I die my children can come to my grave and truthfully say : " He who sleeps here never gave us one moment ...
... truth is to tell it yourself . Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker . -I intend to live that when I die my children can come to my grave and truthfully say : " He who sleeps here never gave us one moment ...
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... truth that this is a nation one and indivisible . I deny that we are a confederacy bound together with ropes of cloud and chains of mist . This is a nation , and every man in it owes his first allegiance to the grand old flag for which ...
... truth that this is a nation one and indivisible . I deny that we are a confederacy bound together with ropes of cloud and chains of mist . This is a nation , and every man in it owes his first allegiance to the grand old flag for which ...
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... truth is , if we were more prosperous we'd have more money . They said more money would facilitate business . Suppose a shareholder in a railroad that had earned $ 18,000 in the past year should look over the books and find that in that ...
... truth is , if we were more prosperous we'd have more money . They said more money would facilitate business . Suppose a shareholder in a railroad that had earned $ 18,000 in the past year should look over the books and find that in that ...
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... truth that nobody ever disputed except a scoundrel ; nobody in the entire history of this world . No man ever denied that truth who was not a rascal , and at heart a thief ; never , never , and never will . What else were they fighting ...
... truth that nobody ever disputed except a scoundrel ; nobody in the entire history of this world . No man ever denied that truth who was not a rascal , and at heart a thief ; never , never , and never will . What else were they fighting ...
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... truth and falsehood , as there is between grain and wheat . We have to plow the land , we have to sow the seed , and we have , with great labor and infinite patience , to guard the crops against anything that might injure ; while weeds ...
... truth and falsehood , as there is between grain and wheat . We have to plow the land , we have to sow the seed , and we have , with great labor and infinite patience , to guard the crops against anything that might injure ; while weeds ...
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Page 279 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 293 - 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 as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 280 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 211 - To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Page 290 - And then there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while I fear there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart and deceitful speech, they have strove, to hinder it.
Page 294 - What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.
Page 234 - Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the maligners of his honor.
Page 41 - This brave and tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock; but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. He was the friend of all heroic souls.
Page 294 - ... their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you, nor Napoleon if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 233 - Our country, crowned with the vast and marvelous achievements of its first century, asks for a man worthy of the past and prophetic of her future ; asks for a man who has the audacity of genius ; asks for a man who is the grandest combination of heart, conscience and brain beneath her flag. Such a man is James G. Elaine.