Best American OrationsJohn Raymond Howard Crowell, 1910 - 346 páginas |
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... hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen , if , entertaining as I do , opinions of a character very opposite to theirs , I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for cere ...
... hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen , if , entertaining as I do , opinions of a character very opposite to theirs , I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve . This is no time for cere ...
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John Raymond Howard. in the illusions of 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 ...
John Raymond Howard. in the illusions of 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 ...
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... hope of peace and reconciliation . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free if we mean to preserve inviolate those inesti- mable privileges for which we have been so long con- tending if we mean not basely to abandon ...
... hope of peace and reconciliation . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free if we mean to preserve inviolate those inesti- mable privileges for which we have been so long con- tending if we mean not basely to abandon ...
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... hope that a proper organization of the whole , with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions , will afford a happy issue to the experiment . ' Tis well worth a fair and full experiment . With such powerful and ...
... hope that a proper organization of the whole , with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions , will afford a happy issue to the experiment . ' Tis well worth a fair and full experiment . With such powerful and ...
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... hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish ; that they will control the usual current of the passions , or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations ! But , if I ...
... hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish ; that they will control the usual current of the passions , or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations ! But , if I ...
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Página 68 - It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Página 70 - Let it simply be asked. Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Página 69 - This within certain limits is probably true ; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast, 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...
Página 68 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissensions, which, in different ages and countries, has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads, at length, to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...
Página 15 - Gentlemen may cry peace, 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 73 - The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim.
Página 170 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," God grant it, — God grant it!
Página 72 - ... revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate. Observe...
Página 299 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.
Página 74 - ... of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.