American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters and Other Papers which Illustrate the Foundation, the Development, the Preservation of the United States of AmericaThis work contains speeches, letters, and other papers from famous American that were influential in American history. |
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... established by consent of the people . By this most beneficent compact , British sub- jects are to be governed only agreeably to laws to which themselves have in some way consented , and are not to be compelled to part with their ...
... established by consent of the people . By this most beneficent compact , British sub- jects are to be governed only agreeably to laws to which themselves have in some way consented , and are not to be compelled to part with their ...
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... established opinions among the people to be governed , wherever such opinions might , in their effects , obstruct or promote public measures . If they tend to obstruct public service they are to be changed , if pos- sible , before we ...
... established opinions among the people to be governed , wherever such opinions might , in their effects , obstruct or promote public measures . If they tend to obstruct public service they are to be changed , if pos- sible , before we ...
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... established at Boston , who were to have the care of collecting those duties , which were by the act expressly mentioned to be intended for the payment of the salaries of governors , judges , and other officers of the Crown in America ...
... established at Boston , who were to have the care of collecting those duties , which were by the act expressly mentioned to be intended for the payment of the salaries of governors , judges , and other officers of the Crown in America ...
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... established by law , but would probably be much more so if they were to be supported by money drawn from the people with- out their consent ' or good will , which is the professed design of the new act . That if by means of these forced ...
... established by law , but would probably be much more so if they were to be supported by money drawn from the people with- out their consent ' or good will , which is the professed design of the new act . That if by means of these forced ...
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... established ( that is declared as an original right ) , that there shall be liberty of conscience allowed in the ... establishing the legislative power . As the first funda- mental natural law , also , which is to govern even the ...
... established ( that is declared as an original right ) , that there shall be liberty of conscience allowed in the ... establishing the legislative power . As the first funda- mental natural law , also , which is to govern even the ...
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Page 634 - 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...
Page 502 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 484 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; 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...
Page 580 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 634 - South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those Divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? 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...
Page 638 - Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning ; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding ; that when he cometh and knocketh, they -may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching...
Page 162 - 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/ In July 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.
Page 192 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 634 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish...
Page 439 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye...