American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent AmericansDesilver, Thomas & Company, 1836 - 531 páginas |
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... never an arbitrary govern- ment ; our ancestors were never inconsiderate enough to trust those rights , which God and nature had given them , unreservedly into the hands of their princes . However difficult it may be , in other states ...
... never an arbitrary govern- ment ; our ancestors were never inconsiderate enough to trust those rights , which God and nature had given them , unreservedly into the hands of their princes . However difficult it may be , in other states ...
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... never granted they surely can never deprive us . I beg leave , here , to mention and to obviate some plausible but ill - founded objections , that have been , and will be , held forth by our adversaries , against the principles of the ...
... never granted they surely can never deprive us . I beg leave , here , to mention and to obviate some plausible but ill - founded objections , that have been , and will be , held forth by our adversaries , against the principles of the ...
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... never had any real existence . I have dwelt the longer upon this part of the objections , urged against us by our adversaries , because this part is the foundation of all the others . We have now removed it ; and they must fall of ...
... never had any real existence . I have dwelt the longer upon this part of the objections , urged against us by our adversaries , because this part is the foundation of all the others . We have now removed it ; and they must fall of ...
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... I will consider them as imaginary . I rose to make inquiry where those dangers were they could make no answer : I believe I never shall have that answer . Is there a disposition in the people THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION . 19.
... I will consider them as imaginary . I rose to make inquiry where those dangers were they could make no answer : I believe I never shall have that answer . Is there a disposition in the people THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION . 19.
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... never was , nor ever will be , capable of . The honorable gentleman's observations , respecting the people's right of being the agents in the formation of this government , are not accurate , in my humble conception . The distinction ...
... never was , nor ever will be , capable of . The honorable gentleman's observations , respecting the people's right of being the agents in the formation of this government , are not accurate , in my humble conception . The distinction ...
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Página 15 - 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!
Página 196 - By the twenty-filth section of the judiciary act of seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, it is provided, "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...
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.
Página 484 - 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 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the people, nation, or community...
Página 111 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Página 51 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 484 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Página 297 - When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens. To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.
Página 26 - That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.