The True Republican: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the First Annual Addresses and Messages, of All the Presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1857 ; Together with Their Farewell Addresses, and Illustrated with the Portrait of Each of the Presidents. With an Appendix Containing the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States ... Also, the Constitutions of the Most Important States in the UnionJ.B. Smith & Company, 1857 - 255 էջ |
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... existing constitu- tions of a country ; that facility in changes , upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion , exposes to per- petual change , from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion ; and remember especially , that from ...
... existing constitu- tions of a country ; that facility in changes , upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion , exposes to per- petual change , from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion ; and remember especially , that from ...
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... existing engagements . I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs , that honesty is always the best policy . I repeat , therefore , let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense . But in my opinion ...
... existing engagements . I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs , that honesty is always the best policy . I repeat , therefore , let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense . But in my opinion ...
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... existing period , I feel that both the honor and the responsibility allotted to me are inexpressibly en- hanced . Un- The present situation of the world is indeed without a parallel ; and that of our own country full of difficulties ...
... existing period , I feel that both the honor and the responsibility allotted to me are inexpressibly en- hanced . Un- The present situation of the world is indeed without a parallel ; and that of our own country full of difficulties ...
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... existing amity . With our Indian neighbors , the just and benevolent system continued towards them , has alse preserved peace , and is more and more advancing habits favorable to their civilization and happiness . From a statement which ...
... existing amity . With our Indian neighbors , the just and benevolent system continued towards them , has alse preserved peace , and is more and more advancing habits favorable to their civilization and happiness . From a statement which ...
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... existing between the United States and the colonies , a doubt was enter- tained whether it had been authorized by them , or any of them . This doubt has gained strength , by the cir cumstances which have unfolded themselves in the prose ...
... existing between the United States and the colonies , a doubt was enter- tained whether it had been authorized by them , or any of them . This doubt has gained strength , by the cir cumstances which have unfolded themselves in the prose ...
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Էջ 26 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all; religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? 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.
Էջ 133 - That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...
Էջ 27 - Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,...
Էջ 56 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions...
Էջ 22 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control; counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.
Էջ 21 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns.
Էջ 23 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
Էջ 22 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small, but artful and enterprising minority of the community : and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans, digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Էջ 24 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Էջ 20 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.