Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated Orators of America, Ireland, and England, Volym 1E.C. & J. Biddle, 1845 |
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... amendments . When I come to contemplate this part , I suppose that I am mad , or that my coun- trymen are so . The way to amendment is , in my conception , shut . Let us consider this plain , easy way . The congress , whenever two ...
... amendments . When I come to contemplate this part , I suppose that I am mad , or that my coun- trymen are so . The way to amendment is , in my conception , shut . Let us consider this plain , easy way . The congress , whenever two ...
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... amendments ? Two thirds of the congress , or of the state legis- latures , are necessary even to propose amendments . If one third of these be unworthy men , they may prevent the application for amendments ; but a destructive and ...
... amendments ? Two thirds of the congress , or of the state legis- latures , are necessary even to propose amendments . If one third of these be unworthy men , they may prevent the application for amendments ; but a destructive and ...
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... amendments are left to the twentieth , or to the tenth part of the people of America , your liberty is gone forever . We have heard that there is a great deal of bribery practised in the house of commons in England ; and that many of ...
... amendments are left to the twentieth , or to the tenth part of the people of America , your liberty is gone forever . We have heard that there is a great deal of bribery practised in the house of commons in England ; and that many of ...
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... amended ; since I have already shown , that a very small minority may prevent it , and that small minority in- terested in the continuance of the oppression . Will the oppressor let go the oppressed ? Was there ever an instance ? Can ...
... amended ; since I have already shown , that a very small minority may prevent it , and that small minority in- terested in the continuance of the oppression . Will the oppressor let go the oppressed ? Was there ever an instance ? Can ...
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... amended , we can never accept it . The adopting states will doubtless accept our money and our regiments ; and what is to be the consequence , if we are disunited ? I believe that it is yet doubtful , whether it is not proper to stand ...
... amended , we can never accept it . The adopting states will doubtless accept our money and our regiments ; and what is to be the consequence , if we are disunited ? I believe that it is yet doubtful , whether it is not proper to stand ...
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Sida 15 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of Liberty and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Sida 292 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Sida 14 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation ? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Sida 473 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, .and in the occasion.
Sida 15 - 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?
Sida 14 - We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Sida 14 - Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation, — the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies ? No, sir, she has none.
Sida 111 - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Sida 53 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Sida 425 - We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.