...enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens by birth or choice,...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...

...enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens by birth or choice,...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...

...enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens by birth or choice,...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 Federal Convention to the people, signed by Washington aa its President, September 17, 1787. 4 "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...

...Washington's words were correct then, are correct now, and will be correct in the future. He declared that — "Citizens by birth, or choice, of a common country, that country has the right to concentrate your affections." These words present a challenge — to members of the Congress,...

...enfeeble the sacred ties which now lin k together the various parts. For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens by birth or choice,...country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of America, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt...

...to leave the American people with some sentiments vital to their identity, George Washington wrote: "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...

...Republic.23 One purpose of keeping partisanship on probation was to center political passion on the Union. "Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections."24 The original critique of partisanship was instrumental to an effort to elevate, intensify,...

...Legion convention, New York City, August 27, 1952.— Speeches ofAdlai Stevenson, p. 81 (1952). 1312 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...

...enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice...country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of America, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt...