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... nation : it has secured us a territory greater than any European monarch possesses and shall a government which has been thus strong and vigorous be accused of imbecility , and abandoned for want of en- ergy ? Consider what you are ...
... nation : it has secured us a territory greater than any European monarch possesses and shall a government which has been thus strong and vigorous be accused of imbecility , and abandoned for want of en- ergy ? Consider what you are ...
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... nations ; the contemptible one we make in France and Holland , which , according to the substance of my notes , he ... nation ; not because their government is strong and ener- getic ; but , sir , because liberty is its direct end and ...
... nations ; the contemptible one we make in France and Holland , which , according to the substance of my notes , he ... nation ; not because their government is strong and ener- getic ; but , sir , because liberty is its direct end and ...
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... nation to form alliance with another , whose situation and construc- tion of government are dissimilar with its own ... nation ought to possess , to en- able it to stand by itself ; yet there are certain sure facts and cir- This ...
... nation to form alliance with another , whose situation and construc- tion of government are dissimilar with its own ... nation ought to possess , to en- able it to stand by itself ; yet there are certain sure facts and cir- This ...
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... nation cannot stand singly . I have spoken with freedom , and I trust I have done it with decency ; but I must also ... nations . What is her situation ? She is not inaccessible . She is not a petty republic , like that of St. Marino ...
... nation cannot stand singly . I have spoken with freedom , and I trust I have done it with decency ; but I must also ... nations . What is her situation ? She is not inaccessible . She is not a petty republic , like that of St. Marino ...
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... nations : has she no cause to fear ? You will have cause to fear as a nation , if disunited ; you will not only have this cause to fear from yourselves , from that species of population I before mentioned , and your once sister states ...
... nations : has she no cause to fear ? You will have cause to fear as a nation , if disunited ; you will not only have this cause to fear from yourselves , from that species of population I before mentioned , and your once sister states ...
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Page 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.
Page 15 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak ; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Page 15 - 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! 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...
Page 21 - That government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of...
Page 437 - We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the 2 morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Page 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...
Page 437 - We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
Page 53 - 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.
Page 14 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 492 - Are not you, sir, who sit in that chair, is not he, our venerable colleague near you, are you not both already the proscribed...