Great Words from Great Americans: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, Washington's Inaugural and Farewell Addresses, EtcPaul Leicester Ford G.P. Putnam, 1889 - 207 páginas |
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... circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages , and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation . He has constrained our fellow - citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against ...
... circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages , and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation . He has constrained our fellow - citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against ...
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... circumstances of our emigration and settlement here . We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity , and we have conjured them , by the ties of our common kindred , to disavow these usurpations , which would inevitably ...
... circumstances of our emigration and settlement here . We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity , and we have conjured them , by the ties of our common kindred , to disavow these usurpations , which would inevitably ...
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... circumstances , un- der which our republic assumed its rank among the nations . The foundation of our empire was not laid in a gloomy age of ignorance and superstition , but at an epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood ...
... circumstances , un- der which our republic assumed its rank among the nations . The foundation of our empire was not laid in a gloomy age of ignorance and superstition , but at an epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood ...
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... circumstances , and such is the alternative now offered to the states . The ability of the country to discharge the debts which have been incurred in its defence is not to be doubted . An inclination , I flatter myself , will not be ...
... circumstances , and such is the alternative now offered to the states . The ability of the country to discharge the debts which have been incurred in its defence is not to be doubted . An inclination , I flatter myself , will not be ...
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... circumstance being duly consid- ered ) will not be deemed less legible than that of the officers . Should a farther re- ward , however , be judged equitable , I will venture to assert , no man will enjoy greater satisfaction than myself ...
... circumstance being duly consid- ered ) will not be deemed less legible than that of the officers . Should a farther re- ward , however , be judged equitable , I will venture to assert , no man will enjoy greater satisfaction than myself ...
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Great Words from Great Americans: The Declaration of Independence, the ... Paul Leicester Ford Vista de fragmentos - 1889 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 117 - Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Página 134 - ... the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character in governments purely elective it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose, and there being constant danger of excess the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.
Página 145 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Página 183 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us...
Página 136 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 116 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union, to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Página 153 - Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils, to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that after fortyfive years of my life dedicated to its service, with an ^ upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.
Página 141 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another...
Página 146 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Página 146 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?