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... measures , in fine , affecting his country , he has inscribed his opinions , and left the traces of his hand . By some felicity of his personal life , by some deep or beautiful word , by some service of his own , or some commemoration ...
... measures , in fine , affecting his country , he has inscribed his opinions , and left the traces of his hand . By some felicity of his personal life , by some deep or beautiful word , by some service of his own , or some commemoration ...
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... measures of the British government , a jury of Massachusetts would not deprive the most reckless enemies , even the officers of that standing army , quartered among them , which they so perfectly abhorred , of any part of that ...
... measures of the British government , a jury of Massachusetts would not deprive the most reckless enemies , even the officers of that standing army , quartered among them , which they so perfectly abhorred , of any part of that ...
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... measures . He was of the committee to state the rights of the colonies , and of that also which reported the address to the king . As it was in the continental Congress , fellow - citizens , that those whose deaths have given rise to ...
... measures . He was of the committee to state the rights of the colonies , and of that also which reported the address to the king . As it was in the continental Congress , fellow - citizens , that those whose deaths have given rise to ...
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... measure , a committee , at the head of which was Mr. Adams , had reported a resolution , which Con- gress adopted the 10th of May , recommending in substance , to all the colo- nies which had not already established governments suited ...
... measure , a committee , at the head of which was Mr. Adams , had reported a resolution , which Con- gress adopted the 10th of May , recommending in substance , to all the colo- nies which had not already established governments suited ...
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... measure , in any event of fortune , to the country and to posterity . The cause of Ameri- can independence , moreover , was now to be presented to the world in such man- ner , if it might so be , as to engage its sympathy , to command ...
... measure , in any event of fortune , to the country and to posterity . The cause of Ameri- can independence , moreover , was now to be presented to the world in such man- ner , if it might so be , as to engage its sympathy , to command ...
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Page 216 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 24 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 80 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 84 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence; or rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 216 - It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences these great interests immediately awoke as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
Page 84 - Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Page 11 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet...
Page 19 - ... it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest...
Page 79 - I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 86 - ... If we fail, it can be no worse for us. But we shall not fail. The cause will raise up armies; the cause will create navies. The people, the people, if we are true to them, will carry us, and will carry themselves, gloriously, through this struggle. I care not how fickle other people have been found. I know the people of these colonies; and I know, that resistance to British aggression is deep and settled in their hearts, and cannot be eradicated.