Washington's Farewell Address: Webster's First Bunker Hill Monument Oration, and Other Patriotic SelectionsMaynard, Merrill, 1906 - 101 pages |
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... true position among the nations of the earth . But there is no trace of national narrowness or bigotry in his counsel . He commends a liberal and gener- ous treatment of the rest of the world , quite in contrast with the sentiments and ...
... true position among the nations of the earth . But there is no trace of national narrowness or bigotry in his counsel . He commends a liberal and gener- ous treatment of the rest of the world , quite in contrast with the sentiments and ...
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... true Lib- erty . The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Govern- ment . But the Constitution which at any time exists , till changed by an explicit and authentic act of ...
... true Lib- erty . The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Govern- ment . But the Constitution which at any time exists , till changed by an explicit and authentic act of ...
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... true character of governments as of other hu- man institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing consti- tution of a country ; that facility in changes , upon the credit of mere ...
... true character of governments as of other hu- man institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing consti- tution of a country ; that facility in changes , upon the credit of mere ...
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... true ; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast Patriotism may look with indulgence , if not with favor , upon the spirit of party . But in those of the popular character , in Governments purely elective , it is a spirit not to be ...
... true ; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast Patriotism may look with indulgence , if not with favor , upon the spirit of party . But in those of the popular character , in Governments purely elective , it is a spirit not to be ...
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... true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government . The rule , in- deed , extends with more or less force to every species of free government . Who , that is a sincere friend to it , can look with indifference ...
... true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government . The rule , in- deed , extends with more or less force to every species of free government . Who , that is a sincere friend to it , can look with indifference ...
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Page 28 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Page 95 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 97 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 94 - 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 22 - 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 28 - There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Page 18 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
Page 100 - 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 battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 26 - So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Page 91 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.