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... important subjects , which ap- pear to me to be intimately connected with the tranquillity of the United States , to take my leave of your Excellency as a public character , and to give my final blessing to that country in whose service ...
... important subjects , which ap- pear to me to be intimately connected with the tranquillity of the United States , to take my leave of your Excellency as a public character , and to give my final blessing to that country in whose service ...
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... importance , and to serve their own interested purposes . For , according to the system of policy the states shall adopt at this moment , they will stand or fall ; and , by their confirmation or lapse , it is yet to be decided whether ...
... importance , and to serve their own interested purposes . For , according to the system of policy the states shall adopt at this moment , they will stand or fall ; and , by their confirmation or lapse , it is yet to be decided whether ...
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... importance . It is only in our united character , as an empire , that our independence is acknowledged , that our power can be regarded , or our credit supported among foreign nations . The treaties of the European powers with the ...
... importance . It is only in our united character , as an empire , that our independence is acknowledged , that our power can be regarded , or our credit supported among foreign nations . The treaties of the European powers with the ...
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... importance of placing the militia of the union upon a regular and respectable footing ; if this should be the case , I should beg leave to urge the great ad- vantage of it in the strongest terms . The militia of this country must be ...
... importance of placing the militia of the union upon a regular and respectable footing ; if this should be the case , I should beg leave to urge the great ad- vantage of it in the strongest terms . The militia of this country must be ...
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... importance of the crisis , and the magni- tude of the objects in discussion , must be my apology ; it is , however , neither my wish nor expectation , that the preceding observations should claim any regard , except so far as they shall ...
... importance of the crisis , and the magni- tude of the objects in discussion , must be my apology ; it is , however , neither my wish nor expectation , that the preceding observations should claim any regard , except so far as they shall ...
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The Ideals of the Republic: Or, Great Words from Great Americans Washington George 1732-1799,Abraham Lincoln No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 173 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 109 - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Page 134 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 51 - Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Page 151 - Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils, to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that after fortyfive years of my life dedicated to its service, with an ^ upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.
Page 119 - Hence likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
Page 138 - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue ? The experiment, at least,...
Page 185 - 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 136 - As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace; but remembering also, that timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it...
Page 127 - 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.