The Meaning of the Times: And Other SpeechesBobbs-Merrill Company, 1908 - 431 páginas |
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... require a new member to be seen but not heard for a year or two , there could be no doubt of the hearty approval of the country at large . Mr. Beveridge's position with respect to our insular terri- tories and their treatment is set ...
... require a new member to be seen but not heard for a year or two , there could be no doubt of the hearty approval of the country at large . Mr. Beveridge's position with respect to our insular terri- tories and their treatment is set ...
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... require that the treasure raised in the north should be transported to the south , that raised in the east conveyed ... requires that the power to charter a bank be deduced from general powers expressly granted . This was the reasoning ...
... require that the treasure raised in the north should be transported to the south , that raised in the east conveyed ... requires that the power to charter a bank be deduced from general powers expressly granted . This was the reasoning ...
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... requires more than religion to found civil institutions . It requires ideals of civil conduct — ideals of civil government . And these are the Puri- tan's legacy to the world . He forgot the divine right of kings ; he never forgot the ...
... requires more than religion to found civil institutions . It requires ideals of civil conduct — ideals of civil government . And these are the Puri- tan's legacy to the world . He forgot the divine right of kings ; he never forgot the ...
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... require Lincolnian methods ? On the one hand there is a tendency toward destruc- tion . The Huns and Vandals of society are on the march . An implied promise of piracy lurks in every utterance of some of their leaders . They awaken ex ...
... require Lincolnian methods ? On the one hand there is a tendency toward destruc- tion . The Huns and Vandals of society are on the march . An implied promise of piracy lurks in every utterance of some of their leaders . They awaken ex ...
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... requiring rebuke , regulation and restraint . These developments have no party . They use all parties for their purpose . What is the policy of Abraham Lincoln's party in this situation ? Go , as Abraham Lincoln always did , to the ...
... requiring rebuke , regulation and restraint . These developments have no party . They use all parties for their purpose . What is the policy of Abraham Lincoln's party in this situation ? Go , as Abraham Lincoln always did , to the ...
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Página 295 - The wisdom and the discretion of congress, their identity with the people, and the influence which their constituents possess at elections are in this, as in many other instances, — as that, for example, of declaring war, — the sole restraints on which they have relied to secure them from its abuse. They are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely in all representative governments.
Página 63 - They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States.
Página 19 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Página 31 - The payment of this, principal and interest, as well as the return to a specie basis as soon as it can be accomplished without material detriment to the debtor class or to the country at large, must be provided for. To protect the national honor, every dollar of Government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract.
Página 7 - The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Página 10 - And here it is to be observed it is not indispensable to the existence of any power claimed for the Federal government that it can be found specified in the words of the Constitution, or clearly and directly traceable to some one of the specified powers. Its existence may be deduced fairly from more than one of the substantive powers expressly defined, or from them all combined. It is allowable to group together any number of them and infer from them all that the power claimed has been conferred.
Página 25 - A return to specie payments, however, at the earliest period compatible with due regard to all interests concerned, should ever be kept in view. Fluctuations in the value of currency are always injurious, and to reduce these fluctuations to the lowest possible point will always be a leading purpose in wise legislation.
Página 289 - All goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part In any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor or/and Indentured labor under penal sanctions shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby prohibited...
Página 67 - Lord, you delivered to me two talents look, I have gained two more talents besides them. His lord said to him, "Well done good and faithful servant you have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many. Enter into the joy of your lord.
Página 163 - It is no fault in others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospitals, and more prayers to heaven than any. God bless the Methodist Church! bless all the churches! and blessed be God, who in this our great trial giveth us the churches.