Addresses on WarFor the International Union, Ginn & Company, 1882 - 319 pages |
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Page vi
... government . " Yes , eighty cents in every dollar were applied in this unproductive manner . The remaining twenty cents sufficed to maintain the government in all its branches , executive , legislative , and judicial , the ad ...
... government . " Yes , eighty cents in every dollar were applied in this unproductive manner . The remaining twenty cents sufficed to maintain the government in all its branches , executive , legislative , and judicial , the ad ...
Page ix
... government , and make its people comfortable and happy . Have we got our money's worth ? Has our way of spending our $ 300,000,000 been best , or would Sumner's way have been best ? If in the midst of our perplexities half a dozen years ...
... government , and make its people comfortable and happy . Have we got our money's worth ? Has our way of spending our $ 300,000,000 been best , or would Sumner's way have been best ? If in the midst of our perplexities half a dozen years ...
Page xi
... government or the politics of the situation , but merely the question of method . What would the hundreds of millions which we have spent there not have accomplished if it had been applied , lovingly and sympathetically , in simple ...
... government or the politics of the situation , but merely the question of method . What would the hundreds of millions which we have spent there not have accomplished if it had been applied , lovingly and sympathetically , in simple ...
Page xiv
... government in the Civil War ; and we know how otherwise he appealed to force when that appeal was necessary and just . We know how he believed in strong government and hated imbecile police , how he spoke of " the sword of the magis ...
... government in the Civil War ; and we know how otherwise he appealed to force when that appeal was necessary and just . We know how he believed in strong government and hated imbecile police , how he spoke of " the sword of the magis ...
Page xvi
... government that troubles me more than this thought . " To his brother George in 1844 : " I would not vote a dollar for any engine of war . One war - steamer costs more than all the endowments of Harvard College . Nations keep standing ...
... government that troubles me more than this thought . " To his brother George in 1844 : " I would not vote a dollar for any engine of war . One war - steamer costs more than all the endowments of Harvard College . Nations keep standing ...
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Page 260 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 61 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 20 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 110 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 198 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence ; for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse...
Page 184 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
Page 206 - We make daily great improvements in natural, there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy; the discovery of a plan, that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another's throats.
Page 112 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel: They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Page 83 - Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 225 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.