Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to Hughes, Ed. with Introduction and Notes |
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... united against you ; while France disturbs your fisheries in New- foundland , embarrasses your slave trade to Africa , and withholds from your subjects in Canada their property stipulated by treaty ; while the ransom for the Manilas is ...
... united against you ; while France disturbs your fisheries in New- foundland , embarrasses your slave trade to Africa , and withholds from your subjects in Canada their property stipulated by treaty ; while the ransom for the Manilas is ...
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... united with much abject toil , with great misery , with all the exterior of servitude , liberty looks , among them , like something that is more noble and liberal . I do not mean , Sir , to commend the superior morality of this ...
... united with much abject toil , with great misery , with all the exterior of servitude , liberty looks , among them , like something that is more noble and liberal . I do not mean , Sir , to commend the superior morality of this ...
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... united than it is now , or than it is likely to be by the present methods . 126. But since I speak of these methods , I recollect , Mr. Speaker , almost too late , that I promised , before I finished , to say something of the ...
... united than it is now , or than it is likely to be by the present methods . 126. But since I speak of these methods , I recollect , Mr. Speaker , almost too late , that I promised , before I finished , to say something of the ...
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... UNITED STATES GEORGE WASHINGTON FRIENDS AND FELLOW - CITIZENS : 1 The period for a new election of a citizen , to admin- ister the executive government of the United States , being not far distant , and the time actually arrived , when ...
... UNITED STATES GEORGE WASHINGTON FRIENDS AND FELLOW - CITIZENS : 1 The period for a new election of a citizen , to admin- ister the executive government of the United States , being not far distant , and the time actually arrived , when ...
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... union , all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength , greater resource , proportion- ably greater security from external danger , a less fre- 108 GEORGE WASHINGTON.
... union , all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength , greater resource , proportion- ably greater security from external danger , a less fre- 108 GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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