Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to Hughes, Ed. with Introduction and Notes |
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... speak , he takes into consideration all the elements of his audience and the occasion . He plans by making use of every resource in his power to meet the forces of evil as they assail him , step by step . He may fail ; but if his cause ...
... speak , he takes into consideration all the elements of his audience and the occasion . He plans by making use of every resource in his power to meet the forces of evil as they assail him , step by step . He may fail ; but if his cause ...
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... speak . The exact nature and force of the opposition , and whatever defines the audi- ence and gives it its character and sympathies , should also be clear . With this data at his disposal , the stu- dent will be in a position both to ...
... speak . The exact nature and force of the opposition , and whatever defines the audi- ence and gives it its character and sympathies , should also be clear . With this data at his disposal , the stu- dent will be in a position both to ...
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... speak with decency of every act of this House ; but I must beg the indulgence of the House to speak of it with freedom . I hope a day may soon be appointed to consider the state of the nation with respect to America . I hope gen- tlemen ...
... speak with decency of every act of this House ; but I must beg the indulgence of the House to speak of it with freedom . I hope a day may soon be appointed to consider the state of the nation with respect to America . I hope gen- tlemen ...
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... speak it was clearly evident that America and the Mother Country were on the verge of war . WAR WITH AMERICA JOHN WILKES I AM surprised that in a business of so much moment as this before the House , respecting the British colonies in ...
... speak it was clearly evident that America and the Mother Country were on the verge of war . WAR WITH AMERICA JOHN WILKES I AM surprised that in a business of so much moment as this before the House , respecting the British colonies in ...
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... speak the plain truth , I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of 3 paper government , nor of any politics in which the plan is to be wholly separated from the execution . But when I saw that anger and violence ...
... speak the plain truth , I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of 3 paper government , nor of any politics in which the plan is to be wholly separated from the execution . But when I saw that anger and violence ...
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Page 204 - 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 115 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way, which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for, though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 205 - 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 120 - ... infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Page 200 - 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 147 - 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 112 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 248 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Page 97 - ... if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Page 105 - In the discharge of this trust I will only say, that I have with good intentions contributed towards the organization and administration of the government, the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience, in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...