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 1841, Together with Their Farewell Addresses, and Illustrated with the Portrait of Each of the Presidents. To which is Annexed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States. Also, the Constitutions of Many of the Most Important States in the UnionD. Richardson, 1841 - 456 страници |
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... councils of nations - and whose providential aids can supply every human defect , that his benediction may con- secrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these ...
... councils of nations - and whose providential aids can supply every human defect , that his benediction may con- secrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these ...
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... councils and joint efforts- of common dangers , sufferings , and success . But these considerations , however powerfully they ad- dress themselves to your sensibility , are greatly outweigh- ed by those which apply more immediately to ...
... councils and joint efforts- of common dangers , sufferings , and success . But these considerations , however powerfully they ad- dress themselves to your sensibility , are greatly outweigh- ed by those which apply more immediately to ...
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... councils , and enfeeble the public administration . It agitates the com- munity with ill - founded jealousies and false alarms ; kin- dles the animosity of one part against another ; foments occasional riot and insurrection . It opens ...
... councils , and enfeeble the public administration . It agitates the com- munity with ill - founded jealousies and false alarms ; kin- dles the animosity of one part against another ; foments occasional riot and insurrection . It opens ...
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... councils ! Such an at- tachment of a small or weak , towards a great and power- ful nation , dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter . Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ( I conjure you to believe me , fellow ...
... councils ! Such an at- tachment of a small or weak , towards a great and power- ful nation , dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter . Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ( I conjure you to believe me , fellow ...
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... councils to what is best , and give them a favorable issue for your peace and prosperity . DECEMBER 8 , 1801 . SIR : The circumstances under which we find our- selves at this place rendering inconvenient the mode heretofore practised ...
... councils to what is best , and give them a favorable issue for your peace and prosperity . DECEMBER 8 , 1801 . SIR : The circumstances under which we find our- selves at this place rendering inconvenient the mode heretofore practised ...
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Страница 27 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Страница 12 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Страница 25 - 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...
Страница 29 - 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,...
Страница 30 - As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities...
Страница 28 - The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate. To facilitate to them the performance...
Страница 348 - 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.
Страница 23 - 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. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...
Страница 349 - ... best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that...
Страница 420 - That the printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch of government : and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts .and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.