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... existing Federal Government , it is not invidious to say , that few or none are more conspicuous . Endowed by nature with extraordinary powers , he has cultivated them in a PREFACE . manner and to an extent , most propitious iv PREFACE .
... existing Federal Government , it is not invidious to say , that few or none are more conspicuous . Endowed by nature with extraordinary powers , he has cultivated them in a PREFACE . manner and to an extent , most propitious iv PREFACE .
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... existing Federal Government , it is not invidious to say , that few or none are more conspicuous . Endowed by nature with extraordinary powers , he has cultivated them in a I PREFACE . manner and to an extent , most propitious iv PREFACE .
... existing Federal Government , it is not invidious to say , that few or none are more conspicuous . Endowed by nature with extraordinary powers , he has cultivated them in a I PREFACE . manner and to an extent , most propitious iv PREFACE .
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... existing im- mediately within their limits , which could satisfy their wishes . It was easy to foresee , what we know also to have happened , that the first great cause of collision and jealousy would be , under the notion of political ...
... existing im- mediately within their limits , which could satisfy their wishes . It was easy to foresee , what we know also to have happened , that the first great cause of collision and jealousy would be , under the notion of political ...
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... existing im- mediately within their limits , which could satisfy their wishes . It was easy to foresee , what we know also to have happened , that the first great cause of collision and jealousy would be , under the notion of political ...
... existing im- mediately within their limits , which could satisfy their wishes . It was easy to foresee , what we know also to have happened , that the first great cause of collision and jealousy would be , under the notion of political ...
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... existing systems of government , in the maintenance of which , it should seem , a great majority , both in numbers and in other means of power and influence , must see their interest . But this state of things is not brought about ...
... existing systems of government , in the maintenance of which , it should seem , a great majority , both in numbers and in other means of power and influence , must see their interest . But this state of things is not brought about ...
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Page 184 - 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.
Page 58 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society.
Page 44 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Page 47 - We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, or at least the hope of a country, and that a free country.
Page 24 - We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Page 96 - ... the precepts of justice, Christian charity and peace, which far from being applicable only to private concerns, must have an immediate influence on the councils of princes, and guide all their steps, as being the only means of consolidating human institutions, and remedying their imperfections.
Page 24 - ... saw filled with wives and children and countrymen in distress and terror, and looking with unutterable emotions for the issue of the combat, have presented you to-day with the sight of its whole happy population, come out to welcome and greet you with a universal jubilee.
Page 46 - The war, then, must go on. We must fight it through. And if the war must go on, why put off longer the Declaration of Independence?
Page 184 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.