American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the Most Eminent Orators of America, Volume 1D. Appleton and Company, 1857 - American Orators |
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... hope , when God Almighty , in his righteous providence , shail take me out of time into eternity , that it will be by a flash of lightning . " He lived to see the Independence of the Colonies , but never fully to enjoy it . " When the ...
... hope , when God Almighty , in his righteous providence , shail take me out of time into eternity , that it will be by a flash of lightning . " He lived to see the Independence of the Colonies , but never fully to enjoy it . " When the ...
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... hope for the success they found , and then such hope would vanish , unless they could get a new lease of life and understanding . * This extract is taken from a letter addressed by James Otis to his father , in reference to the legal ...
... hope for the success they found , and then such hope would vanish , unless they could get a new lease of life and understanding . * This extract is taken from a letter addressed by James Otis to his father , in reference to the legal ...
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... hope some gentleman or other will bring forth , not to be exercised . " This tells us that there in full array , those dangers , if there be any , can be no suspension of government , or laws , that we may see and touch them ; I have ...
... hope some gentleman or other will bring forth , not to be exercised . " This tells us that there in full array , those dangers , if there be any , can be no suspension of government , or laws , that we may see and touch them ; I have ...
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... hope Virginia could defend her- self ; but , sir , the dissolution of the Union is most abhorrent to my mind . The first thing I have at heart is American liberty ; the second thing is American union ; and I hope the people of Virginia ...
... hope Virginia could defend her- self ; but , sir , the dissolution of the Union is most abhorrent to my mind . The first thing I have at heart is American liberty ; the second thing is American union ; and I hope the people of Virginia ...
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... hope you will consider not only its defects most ma- turely , but likewise those of that which you are to substitute for it . May you be fully apprised | of the dangers of the latter , not by fatal expe- rience , but by some abler ...
... hope you will consider not only its defects most ma- turely , but likewise those of that which you are to substitute for it . May you be fully apprised | of the dangers of the latter , not by fatal expe- rience , but by some abler ...
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Page 249 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? 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.
Page 250 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Page 246 - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 248 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds...
Page 249 - The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another...
Page 250 - ... the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Page 244 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom...
Page 245 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest ; no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness; but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible...
Page 246 - 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 experiment. It is well worth a fair and full experiment.
Page 247 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterward the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.