Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to WilsonRobert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920 - 267 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 27
Página 78
... senator from Massachusetts , made his famous reply . He had had only the intervening night in which to make formal ... Senate Chamber have come down through the long years of political conflict and civil war and at last have become ...
... senator from Massachusetts , made his famous reply . He had had only the intervening night in which to make formal ... Senate Chamber have come down through the long years of political conflict and civil war and at last have become ...
Página 79
... which is able to raise mortals to the skies , I have yet none , as I trust , of that other spirit which would drag angels down . When I shall be found , sir , in my place 3 here in the Senate , or elsewhere , to sneer REPLY TO HAYNE 79.
... which is able to raise mortals to the skies , I have yet none , as I trust , of that other spirit which would drag angels down . When I shall be found , sir , in my place 3 here in the Senate , or elsewhere , to sneer REPLY TO HAYNE 79.
Página 80
... Senate , or elsewhere , to sneer at public merit , because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own state or neighborhood ; when I refuse , for any such cause or for any cause , the homage due to American talent , to ...
... Senate , or elsewhere , to sneer at public merit , because it happens to spring up beyond the little limits of my own state or neighborhood ; when I refuse , for any such cause or for any cause , the homage due to American talent , to ...
Página 83
... Senate , and House of Representa- tives , is a popular government . It leaves it still all its popular character . The governor of a State ( in some of the States ) is chosen , not directly by the people , but by those who are chosen by ...
... Senate , and House of Representa- tives , is a popular government . It leaves it still all its popular character . The governor of a State ( in some of the States ) is chosen , not directly by the people , but by those who are chosen by ...
Página 84
... Senate much too long . I was drawn into the debate with no previous deliberation , such as is suited to the discussion of so grave and important a subject . But it is a subject of which my heart is full , and I have not been willing to ...
... Senate much too long . I was drawn into the debate with no previous deliberation , such as is suited to the discussion of so grave and important a subject . But it is a subject of which my heart is full , and I have not been willing to ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
action affairs American applause argument arms army attempt authority battle became become believe better blood British called carried cause citizens Civil colonies common Congress consider Constitution course delivered democracy desire determine duty effect empire enemies England English Europe fact feeling fight final followed force France freedom German give grant hand hear heart honor hope House human important independence interest Italy justice land less liberty Lincoln live Lord means ment military mind nation nature never North object opinion ourselves Parliament peace political present President principle proposed question reason representative secure seemed Senate ships slavery slaves South speak speech spirit stand struggle success taken things thought tion true Union United voice whole Wilson wish wrong York
Pasajes populares
Página 139 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 140 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among...
Página 135 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Página 82 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's government; made for the people; made by the people ; and answerable to the people.
Página 57 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Página 48 - ... the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Página 30 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Página 178 - On the third of February last I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, or the western coasts of Europe, or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean.
Página 66 - VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...
Página 26 - ... of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace; sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts. — It is peace sought in the spirit of peace ; and laid in principles purely pacific.