Fourth of July Orations, Том 11863 |
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... truth of the people , and renders our national character a byword and a reproach ; a lie against freedom , a libel upon humanity . X The neglect of this primal duty has led , in various portions of our land , to confusion and anarchy ...
... truth of the people , and renders our national character a byword and a reproach ; a lie against freedom , a libel upon humanity . X The neglect of this primal duty has led , in various portions of our land , to confusion and anarchy ...
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... truths upon which our government is based , and upon whose preservation depends our perpetuity as a union . Let us not ... truth and virtue which sustained our patriot fathers , and made us free . Men of America ! Forget not your trust ...
... truths upon which our government is based , and upon whose preservation depends our perpetuity as a union . Let us not ... truth and virtue which sustained our patriot fathers , and made us free . Men of America ! Forget not your trust ...
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... truth to the nations of the earth ; to remember that your duty is to give these ideas that expansion and direction which their importance claims ; to remember that liberty is unselfish , confined to no land , but belongs as a God ...
... truth to the nations of the earth ; to remember that your duty is to give these ideas that expansion and direction which their importance claims ; to remember that liberty is unselfish , confined to no land , but belongs as a God ...
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... scoffed at , and constitutional freedom is known to exist , only as her crushed and mangled form is seen to twitch and quiver under the dark pall of arbitrary power . с Before admitting the truth of such a supposition , in 17.
... scoffed at , and constitutional freedom is known to exist , only as her crushed and mangled form is seen to twitch and quiver under the dark pall of arbitrary power . с Before admitting the truth of such a supposition , in 17.
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Before admitting the truth of such a supposition , in itself so paradoxical , in its moral aspects so mourn- ful , in its natural influence on the progress of liberal ideas so discouraging , let us , for a few moments , look at facts ...
Before admitting the truth of such a supposition , in itself so paradoxical , in its moral aspects so mourn- ful , in its natural influence on the progress of liberal ideas so discouraging , let us , for a few moments , look at facts ...
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Страница 5 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Страница 37 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Страница 37 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Страница 35 - I am sincerely one of those, and would rather be in dependence on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation on earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those, too, who, rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British Parliament, and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole Island in the ocean.
Страница 39 - The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.
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Страница 43 - The separate independence and individual sovereignty of the several States were never thought of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed this declaration. The several States are not even mentioned by name in any part of...