Best American OrationsJohn Raymond Howard Crowell, 1910 - 346 Seiten |
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... arms ; and in all his legislative career , in the Continental Congress of 1774 and the Virginia Convention of 1775 , he was foremost in repelling the idea of British aggression . He was made Governor of Virginia in 1776-1779 and in 1784 ...
... arms ; and in all his legislative career , in the Continental Congress of 1774 and the Virginia Convention of 1775 , he was foremost in repelling the idea of British aggression . He was made Governor of Virginia in 1776-1779 and in 1784 ...
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... arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us , Sir , that we are weak ; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary . But when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the next week , or the next year ? Will it be when ...
... arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us , Sir , that we are weak ; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary . But when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the next week , or the next year ? Will it be when ...
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... arms ! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear , or peace so sweet , as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it ...
... arms ! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear , or peace so sweet , as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it ...
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... arms , we should expect that justice and mercy from brutal and inflamed invaders which have been denied to our supplica- tions at the foot of the throne ? Were we to hear our character as a people ridiculed with indifference ? Did they ...
... arms , we should expect that justice and mercy from brutal and inflamed invaders which have been denied to our supplica- tions at the foot of the throne ? Were we to hear our character as a people ridiculed with indifference ? Did they ...
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... arms ; when I behold legions of foreign assassins , paid by Englishmen to imbrue their hands in our blood ; when I tread over the uncoffined bones of my countrymen , neighbors and friends ; when I see the locks of a venerable father ...
... arms ; when I behold legions of foreign assassins , paid by Englishmen to imbrue their hands in our blood ; when I tread over the uncoffined bones of my countrymen , neighbors and friends ; when I see the locks of a venerable father ...
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Seite 68 - It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Seite 70 - Let it simply be asked. Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Seite 69 - This within certain limits is probably true ; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast, Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and...
Seite 68 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissensions, which, in different ages and countries, has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads, at length, to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...
Seite 15 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death...
Seite 73 - The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim.
Seite 170 - 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," God grant it, — God grant it!
Seite 72 - ... revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate. Observe...
Seite 299 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.
Seite 74 - ... of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.