Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to HughesRobert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan |
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... hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen , if , entertaining as I do opinions of a char- acter very opposite to theirs , I shall speak forth my senti- ments freely and without reserve . This is no time for ceremony ...
... hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen , if , entertaining as I do opinions of a char- acter very opposite to theirs , I shall speak forth my senti- ments freely and without reserve . This is no time for ceremony ...
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... hope of peace and recon- ciliation . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free - if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending - if we mean not basely to ...
... hope of peace and recon- ciliation . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free - if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending - if we mean not basely to ...
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... hope , so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation , by well - conceived taxation . I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits ...
... hope , so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation , by well - conceived taxation . I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits ...
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WILLIAM PITT EARL OF CHATHAM American Taxation II | 11 |
EDMUND BURKE | 19 |
First Bunker Hill | 125 |
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