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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... clothed with the language of art . Just as battles record for the student of military science the crises and conclusions of physical struggles for the world's freedom , so great speeches mark for the statesman vii INTRODUCTION.
... clothed with the language of art . Just as battles record for the student of military science the crises and conclusions of physical struggles for the world's freedom , so great speeches mark for the statesman vii INTRODUCTION.
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... military art will of course have some predilection for it . Those who wield the thunder of the state may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms . But I confess , possibly for want of this knowledge , my opinion is much more in ...
... military art will of course have some predilection for it . Those who wield the thunder of the state may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms . But I confess , possibly for want of this knowledge , my opinion is much more in ...
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... military government , attempted in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , it was soon discovered that nothing could make that country English in civility and allegiance but your laws and your forms of legislature . It was not English arms , but ...
... military government , attempted in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , it was soon discovered that nothing could make that country English in civility and allegiance but your laws and your forms of legislature . It was not English arms , but ...
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... military power gave way to the civil ; the marches were turned into counties . But that a nation should have a right to English liberties , and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these lib- erties - the grant of their ...
... military power gave way to the civil ; the marches were turned into counties . But that a nation should have a right to English liberties , and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these lib- erties - the grant of their ...
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... military establishments , which , under any form of government , are inauspicious to liberty , and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican liberty . In this sense it is , that your Union ought to be considered as ...
... military establishments , which , under any form of government , are inauspicious to liberty , and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican liberty . In this sense it is , that your Union ought to be considered as ...
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