Eloquence of the United States, Volumen1E. & H. Clark, 1827 - 517 páginas |
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... duty of submission to them . In some cases they will apply , with much propriety and force , to states already formed . The advantages and necessity of civil govs ernment among individuals in society are not greater or stronger than ...
... duty of submission to them . In some cases they will apply , with much propriety and force , to states already formed . The advantages and necessity of civil govs ernment among individuals in society are not greater or stronger than ...
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... duty as well as of candor demands this . We have remarked , that civil government is neces- sary to the perfection of society : we now remark , that civil liberty is necessary to the perfection of civil gov- ernment . Civil liberty is ...
... duty as well as of candor demands this . We have remarked , that civil government is neces- sary to the perfection of society : we now remark , that civil liberty is necessary to the perfection of civil gov- ernment . Civil liberty is ...
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... duty . From the delinquency of those states who have suf- fered little by the war , we naturally conclude , that they have made no efforts ; and a knowledge of human VOL . I. 4 nature will teach us , that their ease and security THE ...
... duty . From the delinquency of those states who have suf- fered little by the war , we naturally conclude , that they have made no efforts ; and a knowledge of human VOL . I. 4 nature will teach us , that their ease and security THE ...
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... duty ; or on the other , but corruption . They do not reflect , that he is to return to the community ; that he is de- pendent on the will of the people , and that it cannot be his interest to oppose their wishes . Sir , the general ...
... duty ; or on the other , but corruption . They do not reflect , that he is to return to the community ; that he is de- pendent on the will of the people , and that it cannot be his interest to oppose their wishes . Sir , the general ...
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... duty to examine all those means with peculiar attention , and to choose the best and most effectual . It is our duty to draw from nature , from reason , from examples , the best.
... duty to examine all those means with peculiar attention , and to choose the best and most effectual . It is our duty to draw from nature , from reason , from examples , the best.
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Página 451 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Página 84 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the people, nation, or community...
Página 253 - I have, in obedience to the publick summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States, a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may...
Página ii - In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Página 91 - That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.
Página 95 - If your American chief be a man of ambition and abilities, how easy is it for him to render himself absolute! The army is in his hands, and if he be a man of address, it will be attached to him, and it will be the subject of long meditation with him to seize the first auspicious moment to accomplish his design...
Página 466 - If a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth ; if an attachment to the constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it...
Página 94 - This constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful: among other deformities it has an awful squinting; it squints toward monarchy; and does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American...
Página 454 - On this subject you need not suspect any deception on your feelings. It is a spectacle of horror, which cannot be overdrawn.
Página 450 - It is painful, I hope it is superfluous, to make even the supposition, that America should furnish the occasion of this opprobrium. No, let me not even imagine, that a republican government, sprung, as our own is, from a people enlightened and uncorrupted, a government whose origin is right, and whose daily discipline is duty, can, upon solemn debate, make its option to be faithless; can dare to act what despots dare not avow, what our own example evinces the states of Barbary are unsuspected of.