...foreign powers, on this subject, ¡fulfilled. It is time for this country to interfere vigorously. Let us not lay the flattering unction to our souls that we have done our duty in this matter. A great deal, at least, yet remains to be done. We have expended...

...which enabled them to exaggerate all the good and minimize all the bad of their own youthful days. Let us not lay the flattering unction to our souls that we are the first to hold up our hands in horror at the degeneracy of our young people. The seventeenth century...

...thought or speech, deed or desire, omission or commission, which secretly besets and conquers us, — let us not lay the flattering unction to our souls that we may set over against this one sin so many virtues that there shall be a balance in 6\jr favor. " A...

...science ? — These are suggestive questions, fellow citizens, and they are not very pleasant. But let us not ' lay the flattering unction to our souls,' that we are a very wise people. We are in need of information in all the departments of society. And it is this...

...of our Father in heaven, as abundantly manifested in his willingness to pardon our transgressions, let us not lay the flattering unction to our souls that we can go on sinning, carelessly and recklessly, without making any effort to resist evil, relying, nay,...

...selfrestraint, which I have elsewhere called "constitutional morality," there can be no successful democracy. Let us not lay the "flattering unction to our souls" that we have finally and completely solved the great problem of popular government. It is still, to use the...

...balance of power, or threatened public men with defeat unless they voted against their conscience. Let us not lay the "flattering unction to our souls" that we have finally and completely solved the great problem of popular government. It is still, to use the...