American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent AmericansDesilver, Thomas & Company, 1836 - 531 páginas |
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... never an arbitrary govern- ment ; our ancestors were never inconsiderate enough to trust those rights , which God and nature had given them , unreservedly into the hands of their princes . However difficult it may be , in other states ...
... never an arbitrary govern- ment ; our ancestors were never inconsiderate enough to trust those rights , which God and nature had given them , unreservedly into the hands of their princes . However difficult it may be , in other states ...
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... never granted they surely can never deprive us . I beg leave , here , to mention and to obviate some plausible but ill - founded objections , that have been , and will be , held forth by our adversaries , against the principles of the ...
... never granted they surely can never deprive us . I beg leave , here , to mention and to obviate some plausible but ill - founded objections , that have been , and will be , held forth by our adversaries , against the principles of the ...
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... never had any real existence . I have dwelt the longer upon this part of the objections , urged against us by our adversaries , because this part is the foundation of all the others . We have now removed it ; and they must fall of ...
... never had any real existence . I have dwelt the longer upon this part of the objections , urged against us by our adversaries , because this part is the foundation of all the others . We have now removed it ; and they must fall of ...
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... never to abandon , until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtain- ed - we must fight ! I repeat it , sir , we must fight ! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us , sir , that we are ...
... never to abandon , until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtain- ed - we must fight ! I repeat it , sir , we must fight ! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us , sir , that we are ...
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... never sent delegates to make any proposition of changing the government . Yet I must say , at the same time , that it was made on grounds the most pure ; and perhaps I might have been brought to consent to it , so far as to the change ...
... never sent delegates to make any proposition of changing the government . Yet I must say , at the same time , that it was made on grounds the most pure ; and perhaps I might have been brought to consent to it , so far as to the change ...
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Página 300 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Página 15 - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Página 14 - President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of 2 hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not...
Página 21 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security, of the people, nation or community...
Página 199 - By the twenty-filth section of the judiciary act of seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, it is provided, "that a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state, in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Página 113 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Página 439 - Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers, and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else, how changed...
Página 492 - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
Página 14 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Página 301 - When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens. To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.