 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 816 pages
...their attainment ; they should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic institutions, the touchstone by which to try the services of those...moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace onr steps, and to regain tho road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. How beautiful the... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 728 pages
...the creed of our political faith — the text of civil CHAP. XII.] THE RECEPTION BY THE PUBLIC. 633 instruction — the touchstone by which to try the...should we wander from them in moments of error or alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 818 pages
...guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment ; they...the creed of our political faith, the text of civic institutions, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we wander... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 794 pages
...our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They...be the creed of our political faith — the text of eml CHAP. XII.] THE RECEPTION BY THE PUBLIC. 633 instruction — the touchstone by which to try the... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 732 pages
...our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith—the teit of civil instruction—the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust;... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment. They...those we trust : and should we wander from them in the moments of error or alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 642 pages
...of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been Ji£> devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith — the text of civil instruction — the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 pages
...guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They...the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety. I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in... | |
 | Indiana General Assembly House Commit, Indiana General Assembly House Committee - History - 1863 - 168 pages
...steps through the age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of og£ sages, and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They...should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civil instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of 'those we trust. AND SHOULD WE WANDER... | |
 | Edward Dicey - Abolitionists - 1863 - 356 pages
...corpus, and trial by "juries impartially selected, are the principles which " have guided our steps. Should we wander from them " in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to re" trace our steps, and to regain the road which alone " leads to peace, liberty, and safety." This,... | |
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These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. 
