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... politics and in his political career . It was unfortunately conspicuous in his controversy in the Senate with Mr. Clay , and in his acceptance in 1856 of the candidacy of Mr. Buchanan , manifestly through fear of a rupture with the ...
... politics and in his political career . It was unfortunately conspicuous in his controversy in the Senate with Mr. Clay , and in his acceptance in 1856 of the candidacy of Mr. Buchanan , manifestly through fear of a rupture with the ...
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... count by hundreds , by thousands ; filling libraries ; exacting long labors - the labors of a lifetime , abstracted from business , from politics ; but assisted by taking part in an active judicial administration 18 RUFUS CHOATE.
... count by hundreds , by thousands ; filling libraries ; exacting long labors - the labors of a lifetime , abstracted from business , from politics ; but assisted by taking part in an active judicial administration 18 RUFUS CHOATE.
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... court . What is true of those clients is true of the whole people of Massachusetts . Sir , that people have two traits of character - just as our political system , in which that character is shown forth , has two great ends 22 RUFUS ...
... court . What is true of those clients is true of the whole people of Massachusetts . Sir , that people have two traits of character - just as our political system , in which that character is shown forth , has two great ends 22 RUFUS ...
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... politics and states- manship , it was his ambition to rule the twelve men upon the panel , and his triumphs were won at the bar . His vocation was the law ; politics and | statesmanship were avocations to which he turned temporarily for ...
... politics and states- manship , it was his ambition to rule the twelve men upon the panel , and his triumphs were won at the bar . His vocation was the law ; politics and | statesmanship were avocations to which he turned temporarily for ...
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... political contests of the time , or to seek political distinction and office . Happily , thus far in our history , the small number of judges who have attempted to step from the bench to the presi- dency have been disappointed ...
... political contests of the time , or to seek political distinction and office . Happily , thus far in our history , the small number of judges who have attempted to step from the bench to the presi- dency have been disappointed ...
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Page 97 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 106 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.
Page 108 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 102 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 108 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 120 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 117 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago, the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us.
Page 196 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful...
Page 120 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation shall under God have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the 'earth...
Page 60 - Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke rose first from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.