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... hope , also , that the conviction of the wisdom and stability of American institutions , that has grown upon me as I have studied them from a distant point of view , will impart strength to any who may be wavering amid inter- nal ...
... hope , also , that the conviction of the wisdom and stability of American institutions , that has grown upon me as I have studied them from a distant point of view , will impart strength to any who may be wavering amid inter- nal ...
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... hope that these pages may help to correct such misunderstandings , and to establish a criterion of both government and society in the United States . I have been urged to put the Lectures into the form of a text - book for students ...
... hope that these pages may help to correct such misunderstandings , and to establish a criterion of both government and society in the United States . I have been urged to put the Lectures into the form of a text - book for students ...
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... hope to attain . We cannot honor , we can- not exalt , this day , save by becoming in personal character , and in public as well as private life , all that the day has made us capable of being as citizens and as men . He who lives ...
... hope to attain . We cannot honor , we can- not exalt , this day , save by becoming in personal character , and in public as well as private life , all that the day has made us capable of being as citizens and as men . He who lives ...
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... hope of the founders of the nation , or the ideal of the Declaration of Independence . But as man , however imperfect , and , if you please , fallen , is still the son of God , and that divine original is the grand motive and incentive ...
... hope of the founders of the nation , or the ideal of the Declaration of Independence . But as man , however imperfect , and , if you please , fallen , is still the son of God , and that divine original is the grand motive and incentive ...
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... hope for their final elevation . And , besides , what right have we as yet , in any land , to look for a perfect society ? Indeed , what would a society be worth for our mental and moral discipline that had no more problems to be solved ...
... hope for their final elevation . And , besides , what right have we as yet , in any land , to look for a perfect society ? Indeed , what would a society be worth for our mental and moral discipline that had no more problems to be solved ...
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Page 95 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 179 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions will afford a happy issue to the...
Page 248 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
Page 39 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's " Commentaries
Page 148 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 160 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Page 60 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 191 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 139 - It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these states, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Page 139 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.