Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1867 - United States |
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... party co - extensive with our whole widespread Union . We are here , not forgetting that we have principles to maintain , which are far above all consideration of persons ; that we have a cause and a country to support and uphold ...
... party co - extensive with our whole widespread Union . We are here , not forgetting that we have principles to maintain , which are far above all consideration of persons ; that we have a cause and a country to support and uphold ...
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... party , and that is , that he should be a sound , National , Union Whig . And that we all know he is , and has been from his earliest youth . And he has given one proof of it within a week past , which this assembly will be the last to ...
... party , and that is , that he should be a sound , National , Union Whig . And that we all know he is , and has been from his earliest youth . And he has given one proof of it within a week past , which this assembly will be the last to ...
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... party politics , has practically become so identified with them , that it must be left to other occasions . But the necessity of a greater distribution of labor to the prosperity of all concerned in labor , and the especial need which ...
... party politics , has practically become so identified with them , that it must be left to other occasions . But the necessity of a greater distribution of labor to the prosperity of all concerned in labor , and the especial need which ...
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... party " to remember New London . " What a consolation , what a compensa- tion , would it not have been to Ledyard and his fellow - victims , could they have been permitted to hear that order , and to witness its results ; could they ...
... party " to remember New London . " What a consolation , what a compensa- tion , would it not have been to Ledyard and his fellow - victims , could they have been permitted to hear that order , and to witness its results ; could they ...
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... party . And I may be pardoned for remembering , too , that they have not been altogether uneventful to myself personally . For my own part , however , I have no memory to - day for any thing but what it is agreeable and appropriate to ...
... party . And I may be pardoned for remembering , too , that they have not been altogether uneventful to myself personally . For my own part , however , I have no memory to - day for any thing but what it is agreeable and appropriate to ...
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Page 285 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Page 569 - ... his mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
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Page 276 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Page 269 - We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways: we must all hang together." Franklin replied, " Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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