Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 20Mayo Williamson Hazeltine |
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Page 8412
... amendments are peace - offerings . We should accept them as such , and place ourselves upon them as the starting point from which to meet future political issues as they arise . " Like other southern men , I naturally sought alliance ...
... amendments are peace - offerings . We should accept them as such , and place ourselves upon them as the starting point from which to meet future political issues as they arise . " Like other southern men , I naturally sought alliance ...
Page 8429
... amendments pending in the two Houses with unaffected diffidence . No problem is submitted to us of equal importance and difficulty . Our action will affect the value of all the property of the people of the United States , and the wages ...
... amendments pending in the two Houses with unaffected diffidence . No problem is submitted to us of equal importance and difficulty . Our action will affect the value of all the property of the people of the United States , and the wages ...
Page 8444
... amendments , and yet now supports it when deficiencies have been greatly increased , when the public debt is increasing , and doubts are expressed as to the ability of the government to maintain its notes at par with coin . The ...
... amendments , and yet now supports it when deficiencies have been greatly increased , when the public debt is increasing , and doubts are expressed as to the ability of the government to maintain its notes at par with coin . The ...
Page 8448
... amendments I have mentioned are adopted by Congress . These notes are a legal tender for all debts , public or private . They are a debt of the United States without interest and without other material cost to the government than the ...
... amendments I have mentioned are adopted by Congress . These notes are a legal tender for all debts , public or private . They are a debt of the United States without interest and without other material cost to the government than the ...
Page 8495
... amendment to the federal constitution ( known as article 13 ) ; and also the value of such slaves taken from each county of this Commonwealth ; and that said committee report what steps are necessary and proper to enable citizens of ...
... amendment to the federal constitution ( known as article 13 ) ; and also the value of such slaves taken from each county of this Commonwealth ; and that said committee report what steps are necessary and proper to enable citizens of ...
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Page 8661 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 8573 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Page 8751 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 8328 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Page 8325 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 8746 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Page 8555 - We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, ' that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Page 8347 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Page 8338 - Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and. if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best.
Page 8422 - On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life, yielding to partial and temporary departures from necessity.