The Life of John Marshall, Band 1Houghton Mifflin, 1916 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
amendments American Anti-Constitutionalists appears army Atlantic Monthly bill Burgesses Carrington chap Chastellux Colonel Constitution Constitutionalists Court debate declared Dillon election Elliott enemy father Fauquier County footnote Ford forest frontier ginia Grigsby Hening Henry's Hist horses House House of Burgesses Humphrey Marshall hundred Hunt infra ington James John Mar John Marshall Journal La Rochefoucauld land Legislature letter liberty lived Madison to Jefferson March Marshall's Mason Massachusetts ment miles militia Monroe National Government officers passed Patrick Henry patriot Pendleton Pennsylvania Philadelphia political pounds President of Congress Randolph ratified regiment resolution Richard Henry Lee Richmond roads Rochefoucauld Schoepf Sept Sess settlers shillings soldiers stitution supra taxes Thomas Jefferson Thomas Marshall tion took Treaty troops Valley Forge Virginia vote Warville Wash Washington to President Weld Westmoreland County Writings wrote York young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 287 - Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Seite 63 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Seite 300 - The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.
Seite 343 - These lawyers, and men of learning, and moneyed men, that talk so finely, and gloss over matters so smoothly, to make us, poor illiterate people, swallow down the pill, expect to get into Congress themselves ; they expect to be the managers of this Constitution, and get all the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the great leviathan, Mr. President; yes, just as the whale swallowed up Jonah.
Seite 228 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Seite 121 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.
Seite 1 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Seite 415 - We are threatened with the loss of our liberties by the possible abuse of power, notwithstanding the maxim, that those who give may take away. It is the people that give power, and can take it back. What shall restrain them ? They are the masters who give it, and of whom their servants hold it.
Seite 450 - If they were to make a law not warranted by any of the powers enumerated, it would be considered by the judges as an infringement of the constitution which they are to guard. They would not consider such a law as coming under their jurisdiction. They would declare it void.
Seite 63 - Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus ; Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third...