The Ideals of the Republic, Or, Great Words from Great AmericansG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889 - 207 pages Includes the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and addresses by Washington and Lincoln. |
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... nation . He has constrained our fellow - citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited ...
... nation . He has constrained our fellow - citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited ...
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... nations , and among the several States , and with the Indian tribes ; To establish an uniform rule of natu- ralization , and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ; To coin money , regulate the value ...
... nations , and among the several States , and with the Indian tribes ; To establish an uniform rule of natu- ralization , and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ; To coin money , regulate the value ...
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... nations ; To declare war , grant letters of marque and reprisal , and make rules concerning captures on land and water ; To raise and support armies , but no ap- propriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years ...
... nations ; To declare war , grant letters of marque and reprisal , and make rules concerning captures on land and water ; To raise and support armies , but no ap- propriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years ...
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... nation has ever been favored with . Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly than the recollection of the happy con- juncture of times and circumstances un- der which our republic assumed its rank among the nations . The ...
... nation has ever been favored with . Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly than the recollection of the happy con- juncture of times and circumstances un- der which our republic assumed its rank among the nations . The ...
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... nation , and if their citizens should not be completely free and happy , the fault will be entirely their own . Such is our situation , and such are our prospects ; but notwithstanding the cup of blessing is thus reached out to us ...
... nation , and if their citizens should not be completely free and happy , the fault will be entirely their own . Such is our situation , and such are our prospects ; but notwithstanding the cup of blessing is thus reached out to us ...
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Page 173 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 109 - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Page 134 - 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.
Page 51 - Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Page 151 - 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.
Page 119 - Hence likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
Page 138 - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue ? The experiment, at least,...
Page 185 - 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.
Page 136 - As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace; but remembering also, that timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it...
Page 127 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.