| Basil Williams - 1966 - 440 pages
...the skill of your officers. . . . But on this ground, on the Stamp Act, . . . your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a...pillars of the State and pull down the constitution with her. ]s this your boasted peace ? Not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard but to sheathe it in... | |
| Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - 1982 - 468 pages
...speech that Pitt assured the British of their strength, he added, "In such a case, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a...the state, and pull down the constitution along with her."13 These were the considerations that ultimately conditioned debate over repeal of the Stamp Act.... | |
| Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pages
...hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would tall like a strong man. She would embrace the pillars of...along with her. Is this your boasted peace? Not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen? Will you quarrel... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 pages
...against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the...along with her. Is this your boasted peace — not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen ? Will you quarrel... | |
| Edward Cline - 2005 - 340 pages
...against it! "In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state,...along with her. Is this your boasted peace — not to sheathe the sword in its scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen? Will you quarrel... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...crying injustice, I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like a...along with her. Is this your boasted peace? Not to sheathe the sword in it scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen? Will you quarrel... | |
| Kimberley Jordan Reeman - 2007 - 734 pages
...the force of this country can crush America to atoms. But America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state,...along with her... is this your boasted peace? Not to sheathe the sword in the scabbard, but to sheathe it in the bowels of your countrymen? Will you quarrel... | |
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