pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addressesLittle, Brown, 1855 |
Términos y frases comunes
22 June 26 September acres advantages affectionate Alexandria approbation April assurance attention August barley blessings Buck Buckwheat bushels Carolina circumstances citizens Clover conduct constitution Corn Creek crop December duty Edmund Randolph endeavours established execution expressed farms favor February fellow-citizens fence field GENTLEMEN GEORGE WASHINGTON give grass ground happiness honor HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSES OF CONGRESS Indians interest James January John July June justice kind land laws letter liberty manure March Massachusetts meadow measures ment militia Mount Vernon nation necessary North Carolina November object obligations occasion October opinion patriotism peace Pennsylvania person pleased ploughing post-and-rail fence Potatoes present President proper Providence receive render respect river Samuel satisfaction seed SENATE sentiments September sincere sowing sown things Thomas Thomas Mifflin tion tobacco treaty Truro Parish Union United Virginia wheat William William Moultrie wishes
Pasajes populares
Página 226 - Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its...
Página 233 - There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Página 231 - 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.
Página 235 - I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence, and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.
Página 218 - ... palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 230 - ... the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation, of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation, making the concessions ; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld.
Página 228 - ... avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.
Página 227 - 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 of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Página 222 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the union by which they were procured ? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren, and connect them with aliens ! To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a government for the whole is indispensable.
Página 234 - After deliberate examination, with the aid of the best lights I could obtain, I was well satisfied that our country, under all the circumstances of the case, had a right to take, and was bound in duty and interest to take, a Neutral position.