American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent AmericansE.C. & J. Biddle, 1854 - 531 páginas |
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... admits of an excess of candor ) that all their exaggerated accounts of it were confined strictly to the truth : what will follow ? Will it follow , that every British colony in America , or even the colony of Massachusetts Bay , or even ...
... admits of an excess of candor ) that all their exaggerated accounts of it were confined strictly to the truth : what will follow ? Will it follow , that every British colony in America , or even the colony of Massachusetts Bay , or even ...
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... admit this consolidated gov- ernment , it will be because we like a great and splendid one . Some way or other we must be a great and mighty empire : we must have an army , and a navy , and a number of things . When the American spirit ...
... admit this consolidated gov- ernment , it will be because we like a great and splendid one . Some way or other we must be a great and mighty empire : we must have an army , and a navy , and a number of things . When the American spirit ...
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... admit the necessity of the union , and yet urge this last objec- tion , which I think goes radically to the existence of the union it- self . If the extent of the country be a conclusive argument against a national government , it is ...
... admit the necessity of the union , and yet urge this last objec- tion , which I think goes radically to the existence of the union it- self . If the extent of the country be a conclusive argument against a national government , it is ...
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... Admitting it to be a scheme replete with safety , what nation shall we solicit - France ? She will disdain a connection with a people in our predicament . I would trust every thing to the magnanim- ity of that nation ; but she would ...
... Admitting it to be a scheme replete with safety , what nation shall we solicit - France ? She will disdain a connection with a people in our predicament . I would trust every thing to the magnanim- ity of that nation ; but she would ...
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... of taxation ; but this would require inore time than iny strength or the patience of the committee would now admit of . I shall conclude with a few observations which come from my heart . I have labored for 50 MR . RANDOLPH'S SPEECH ON.
... of taxation ; but this would require inore time than iny strength or the patience of the committee would now admit of . I shall conclude with a few observations which come from my heart . I have labored for 50 MR . RANDOLPH'S SPEECH ON.
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Página 15 - 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!
Página 15 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace! peace!
Página 442 - A spirit pervaded all ranks, not transient, not boisterous, but deep, solemn, determined, "totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Página 300 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Página 490 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Página 21 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety...
Página 14 - We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been -spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne ! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation.
Página 14 - These are the implements of war and subjugation ; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask geattatnein, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies ? No, sir, she has none.
Página 14 - We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty...
Página 198 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest Court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...