The Menace of Privilege: A Study of the Dangers to the Republic from the Existence of a Favored ClassMacmillan, 1905 - 421 páginas |
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... John Paul Jones , the merchant , John Hancock , were American types of manhood and practical citizenship . " In America people do not ask , ' What is he ? ' but ' What can he do ? " " wrote Franklin in 1782 , while repre- senting the ...
... John Paul Jones , the merchant , John Hancock , were American types of manhood and practical citizenship . " In America people do not ask , ' What is he ? ' but ' What can he do ? " " wrote Franklin in 1782 , while repre- senting the ...
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... John Hancock was reputed to be the richest man in Massachusetts at the Revolutionary period . His uncle , Thomas Hancock , with whom John was in partnership in a mercantile business , died in 1764 , leaving to John , immediately and ...
... John Hancock was reputed to be the richest man in Massachusetts at the Revolutionary period . His uncle , Thomas Hancock , with whom John was in partnership in a mercantile business , died in 1764 , leaving to John , immediately and ...
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... John Hancock in the North , worth a third of a million . Although we should not think of classing them among the wealthy men of our day , there were then but few comparable with them . The standard of what constituted riches was low ...
... John Hancock in the North , worth a third of a million . Although we should not think of classing them among the wealthy men of our day , there were then but few comparable with them . The standard of what constituted riches was low ...
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... John Moody estimates that over " 440 industrial franchise , transportation and miscellaneous " trust com- binations have a total capitalization of more than $ 20,000 , - 000,000 , or two - ninths of the Statistical Bureau's estimate of ...
... John Moody estimates that over " 440 industrial franchise , transportation and miscellaneous " trust com- binations have a total capitalization of more than $ 20,000 , - 000,000 , or two - ninths of the Statistical Bureau's estimate of ...
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... John Hancock vainly tried to make a corner in whale oil . Had he lived in this period , he might have been a Rogers or a Rockefeller . Washington was as keen after landed possessions as many of our Western ranching or lumber kings ...
... John Hancock vainly tried to make a corner in whale oil . Had he lived in this period , he might have been a Rogers or a Rockefeller . Washington was as keen after landed possessions as many of our Western ranching or lumber kings ...
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Página 348 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 285 - And if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free': Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Página 288 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Página 236 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Página 356 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Página 348 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Página 285 - If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Página 63 - The people have a saying, that God Almighty is himself a mechanic, the greatest in the universe; and he is respected and admired more for the variety, ingenuity, and utility of his handiworks, than for the antiquity of his family.
Página 294 - If, in the opinion •of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance. in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can...
Página 315 - Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.