The Making of America, Volume 1Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Hardy, Charles Higgins Making of America, 1906 - Inventors |
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... success , a part of its capital , and the honor of every business transaction more precious than its profits . In like manner the employe preserved his identity , and impressed his personality upon every part of the business which ...
... success , a part of its capital , and the honor of every business transaction more precious than its profits . In like manner the employe preserved his identity , and impressed his personality upon every part of the business which ...
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... success coming to the largest possible number . The lack of personal identity and the absence of moral responsibility for the acts of the corporation , renders it a con- venient cover for dishonest manipulation . For this reason it has ...
... success coming to the largest possible number . The lack of personal identity and the absence of moral responsibility for the acts of the corporation , renders it a con- venient cover for dishonest manipulation . For this reason it has ...
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... successful operations of democracy . It is not enough that equal opportunity to par- ticipate in making and enforcing the laws should be vouch- safed to all - it is equally important that all should be capable of such participation ...
... successful operations of democracy . It is not enough that equal opportunity to par- ticipate in making and enforcing the laws should be vouch- safed to all - it is equally important that all should be capable of such participation ...
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... successful amalgamation an open question , and also to designate those peoples or national- ities which we recognize as distinct yet related within one of the large divisions . Within the area controlled by the United States are to be ...
... successful amalgamation an open question , and also to designate those peoples or national- ities which we recognize as distinct yet related within one of the large divisions . Within the area controlled by the United States are to be ...
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... success , and settlement in a new home . Cankered by a long quiet it falls a prey in a few centuries to some other people that has likewise been keyed up by migration . Again , this principle may account for the fact that those branches ...
... success , and settlement in a new home . Cankered by a long quiet it falls a prey in a few centuries to some other people that has likewise been keyed up by migration . Again , this principle may account for the fact that those branches ...
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Page 194 - Europe from the east to the west, from the north to the south...
Page 305 - Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
Page 72 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of policy, by which property and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 73 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Page 374 - That excellent and by all Physitians approved China Drink, called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay, alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head, a cophee-house in Sweetings Rents, by the Royal Exchange, London.
Page 20 - State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, and from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws ; but it adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another.
Page 299 - While you labour for any thing below your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet:— Unless above himself he can .Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !
Page 82 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 298 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...