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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... human race has won the liberty under which we live ; what it cost in money , endeavor , and blood , it is the manifest duty of live men now to teach everywhere . In schools and colleges instruction in patriotism can well be based on a ...
... human race has won the liberty under which we live ; what it cost in money , endeavor , and blood , it is the manifest duty of live men now to teach everywhere . In schools and colleges instruction in patriotism can well be based on a ...
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... humanity , the original ground and cause of the present dispute . Have we justice on our side ? No ; assuredly no . He must be altogether a strange to the British Constitution who does not know that contributions are voluntary gifts of ...
... humanity , the original ground and cause of the present dispute . Have we justice on our side ? No ; assuredly no . He must be altogether a strange to the British Constitution who does not know that contributions are voluntary gifts of ...
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... been to us , I feel all the pride of power sink , and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me . My rigor relents . I pardon something to the spirit of CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA 31.
... been to us , I feel all the pride of power sink , and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me . My rigor relents . I pardon something to the spirit of CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA 31.
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... human art . We can not , I fear , falsify the pedigree of this fierce people , and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates . The lan- guage in which they would hear you tell ...
... human art . We can not , I fear , falsify the pedigree of this fierce people , and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates . The lan- guage in which they would hear you tell ...
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... humanity , not mild and merciful . In this situation , let us seriously and coolly ponder . What is it we have got by all our menaces , which have been many and ferocious ? What advantage have we derived from the penal laws we have ...
... humanity , not mild and merciful . In this situation , let us seriously and coolly ponder . What is it we have got by all our menaces , which have been many and ferocious ? What advantage have we derived from the penal laws we have ...
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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.