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 8357
... constitution , says an Englishman ; the civilizing mission of France , says a Frenchman . But Plato and the sages , when they are asked what is saving , answer : " To love righteousness and to be convinced of the unprofitableness of ...
... constitution , says an Englishman ; the civilizing mission of France , says a Frenchman . But Plato and the sages , when they are asked what is saving , answer : " To love righteousness and to be convinced of the unprofitableness of ...
Page 8358
... constitution , and civ- ilizing mission of France . And because these matters are what do really govern politics and save or destroy states , Soc- rates maintained that in his time he and a few philosophers , who alone kept insisting on ...
... constitution , and civ- ilizing mission of France . And because these matters are what do really govern politics and save or destroy states , Soc- rates maintained that in his time he and a few philosophers , who alone kept insisting on ...
Page 8379
... constitution for which we have been fight- ing , and which must be preserved ? It is a most delicate mutual adjustment of the powers and rights of a nation , among and because of the powers and rights of thirty or forty States . It ...
... constitution for which we have been fight- ing , and which must be preserved ? It is a most delicate mutual adjustment of the powers and rights of a nation , among and because of the powers and rights of thirty or forty States . It ...
Page 8392
... constitution of the nation was brought to him for his approval . Yet here , too , it is to be said that , when the moment came for the great decision , Adams was willing to sacrifice his own pride for the welfare of the whole . His ...
... constitution of the nation was brought to him for his approval . Yet here , too , it is to be said that , when the moment came for the great decision , Adams was willing to sacrifice his own pride for the welfare of the whole . His ...
Page 8414
... constitution of the United States , formed by our fathers , created no dis- abilities on account of color . By the acts of our fathers and of ourselves , they bear equally the burdens and are required to discharge the highest duties of ...
... constitution of the United States , formed by our fathers , created no dis- abilities on account of color . By the acts of our fathers and of ourselves , they bear equally the burdens and are required to discharge the highest duties 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.