The American Idea as Expounded by American StatesmenJoseph Benson Gilder |
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... believe , that , while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene , patriotism does not forbid it . In looking forward to the moment , which is intended to terminate the career of my public life , my feelings do not ...
... believe , that , while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene , patriotism does not forbid it . In looking forward to the moment , which is intended to terminate the career of my public life , my feelings do not ...
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... believe me , fellow- citizens , ) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove , that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government . But that jealousy , to ...
... believe me , fellow- citizens , ) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove , that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government . But that jealousy , to ...
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... believe that our Southern brethren , if left to themselves , would adopt it of their own accord . It is equally impossible , therefore , that we should behold such interposition , in any form , with indifference . If we look to the ...
... believe that our Southern brethren , if left to themselves , would adopt it of their own accord . It is equally impossible , therefore , that we should behold such interposition , in any form , with indifference . If we look to the ...
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... believe that their understanding upon that question would not have appeared different from that of their twenty - three compeers , had it been manifested at all . For the purpose of adhering rigidly to the text , I have purposely ...
... believe that their understanding upon that question would not have appeared different from that of their twenty - three compeers , had it been manifested at all . For the purpose of adhering rigidly to the text , I have purposely ...
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... believe that " our fathers who framed the government under which we live understood this question just as well , and even better , than we do now , " speak as they spoke , and act as they acted upon it . This is all Republicans ask -all ...
... believe that " our fathers who framed the government under which we live understood this question just as well , and even better , than we do now , " speak as they spoke , and act as they acted upon it . This is all Republicans ask -all ...
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Page 17 - Article, of sending and receiving ambassadors; entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made, whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners, as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Page 180 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 177 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 69 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps -&& finally staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page ix - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 207 - A spirit pervaded all ranks, not transient, not boisterous, but deep, solemn, determined, "totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Page 182 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 12 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Page 96 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 97 - It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.