 | Frederick Bertrand Robinson - Oratory - 1915 - 482 pages
...acts and rules of constitutional law in the body of his speech, but his peroration was as follows : I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept...prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration... | |
 | George Washington - 1915 - 216 pages
...it. Overthrown by direct assault it cannot be; evaded, undermined, nullified, it will not be." ... "I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept...prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union." When the majestic personality and the supreme object in life of... | |
 | Patriotism - 1917 - 200 pages
...suppress the utterance of its spontaneous sentiments. I cannot, even now, persuade myself to relinquish it without expressing once more, my deep conviction,...prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration... | |
 | Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - Literary Collections - 1917 - 342 pages
...suppress the utterance of its spontaneous sentiments. I cannot, even now, persuade myself to relinquish it without expressing once more my deep conviction that...prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration... | |
 | Augustus White Long - American prose literature - 1917 - 458 pages
...[From the reply to Hayne. This noble burst of patriotic feeling would alone keep Webster's fame alive.] I PROFESS, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept...prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union that we owe our safety at home, and our consideration... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - Readers - 1917 - 426 pages
...reply elaborated the national conception of the Union. Our selection gives its most celebrated passage. I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept...prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the s Union, to see... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1918 - 382 pages
...the utterance of its spontaneous sentiments. I cannot, even now, persuade myself to relinquish it, without expressing, once more, my deep conviction,...prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - Democracy - 1918 - 448 pages
...suppress the utterance of its spontaneous sentiments. I cannot, even now, persuade myself to relinquish it without expressing once more my deep conviction that,...prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - Readers - 1918 - 552 pages
...under which we rally, in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. ii I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept...prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration... | |
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I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country and the preservation of our federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is... 
