Great Words from Great Americans: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, Washington's Inaugural and Farewell Addresses, EtcPaul Leicester Ford G.P. Putnam, 1889 - 207 Seiten |
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... , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us , and has endeavored to bring on the The Declaration of Independence 9.
... , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us , and has endeavored to bring on the The Declaration of Independence 9.
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... hands of Congress , and return to that domestic retirement which , it is well known , I left with the greatest reluctance ; a retirement for which I have never ceased to sigh through a long and painful ab- sence , in which ( remote from ...
... hands of Congress , and return to that domestic retirement which , it is well known , I left with the greatest reluctance ; a retirement for which I have never ceased to sigh through a long and painful ab- sence , in which ( remote from ...
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... hand , I was summoned by my country , whose voice I can never hear but with venera- tion and love , from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection , and in my flattering hopes with an immutable * See Appendix , page 195 ...
... hand , I was summoned by my country , whose voice I can never hear but with venera- tion and love , from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection , and in my flattering hopes with an immutable * See Appendix , page 195 ...
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... hand which conducts the affairs of men , more than the people of the United States . Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an indepen- dent nation , seems to have been distin- guished by some token of providential ...
... hand which conducts the affairs of men , more than the people of the United States . Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an indepen- dent nation , seems to have been distin- guished by some token of providential ...
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... hands of the American people . Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care , it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the Fifth Article of the Constitution is ren ...
... hands of the American people . Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care , it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the Fifth Article of the Constitution is ren ...
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Seite 117 - 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.
Seite 134 - ... 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 bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.
Seite 145 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Seite 183 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us...
Seite 136 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Seite 116 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union, to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the 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...
Seite 153 - Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils, to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that after fortyfive 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.
Seite 141 - 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...
Seite 146 - 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.
Seite 146 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?