Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to WilsonRobert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan |
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... feeling is evidence , that our fault was more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salu- tary than our penitence . These , Sir , are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force , by which ...
... feeling is evidence , that our fault was more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salu- tary than our penitence . These , Sir , are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force , by which ...
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... feelings , for which our ancestors have shed their blood . But , Sir , in wishing to put an end to pernicious ex- periments , I do not mean to preclude the fullest inquiry . Far from it . Far from deciding on a sudden or partial view ...
... feelings , for which our ancestors have shed their blood . But , Sir , in wishing to put an end to pernicious ex- periments , I do not mean to preclude the fullest inquiry . Far from it . Far from deciding on a sudden or partial view ...
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... up an indictment against a whole people . I can not insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow - creatures as Sir Edward Coke12 insulted one excellent individual ( Sir Walter Raleigh ) CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA 37.
... up an indictment against a whole people . I can not insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow - creatures as Sir Edward Coke12 insulted one excellent individual ( Sir Walter Raleigh ) CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA 37.
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... feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity , freedom they can have from none but you . This is the commodity of price , of which you have the monopoly . This is the true Act of Navigation which binds to you the commerce of ...
... feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity , freedom they can have from none but you . This is the commodity of price , of which you have the monopoly . This is the true Act of Navigation which binds to you the commerce of ...
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... Feeling against the Mother Country was running decidedly high , and when Henry had concluded his " individual declaration of war against Great Britain , " the Convention of Delegates was a new body . To arms , " seemed to quiver on ...
... Feeling against the Mother Country was running decidedly high , and when Henry had concluded his " individual declaration of war against Great Britain , " the Convention of Delegates was a new body . To arms , " seemed to quiver on ...
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Page 139 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 140 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among...
Page 135 - 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 battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 82 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's government; made for the people; made by the people ; and answerable to the people.
Page 57 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Page 48 - ... the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 30 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 178 - On the third of February last I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, or the western coasts of Europe, or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean.
Page 66 - VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...
Page 26 - ... of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace; sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts. — It is peace sought in the spirit of peace ; and laid in principles purely pacific.