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... Justice .. 109 Sir William Meredith on Frequent Executions .. 114 William Pitt on Economical Reform .... 120 Beaufoy on his Motion to repeal the Test Laws .... 125 Fox on the same Subject . 132 Burke on Fox's India Bill . 136 Burke's ...
... Justice .. 109 Sir William Meredith on Frequent Executions .. 114 William Pitt on Economical Reform .... 120 Beaufoy on his Motion to repeal the Test Laws .... 125 Fox on the same Subject . 132 Burke on Fox's India Bill . 136 Burke's ...
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... Justice Marshall on Announcing the Death of Washington ..... 297 General Lee's Funeral Oration on the Death of Washington .... Inaugural Message of John Adams - March 4 , 1797 .... Inaugural Message of Thomas Jefferson - March 4 , 1801 ...
... Justice Marshall on Announcing the Death of Washington ..... 297 General Lee's Funeral Oration on the Death of Washington .... Inaugural Message of John Adams - March 4 , 1797 .... Inaugural Message of Thomas Jefferson - March 4 , 1801 ...
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... justice of your cause ! SPEECH OF THE IRISH ORATOR PHILLIPS , PREVIOUS TO PROPOSING AS A TOAST , AT A PUBLIC DINNER IN IRELAND , " THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF GEORGE WASH- INGTON . " THE mention of America has never failed to fill me with ...
... justice of your cause ! SPEECH OF THE IRISH ORATOR PHILLIPS , PREVIOUS TO PROPOSING AS A TOAST , AT A PUBLIC DINNER IN IRELAND , " THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF GEORGE WASH- INGTON . " THE mention of America has never failed to fill me with ...
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... justice , I desisted from opposing them ; nay more - though your bill for stopping up the port of Boston contained in it many things most cruel , unwarrantable , and unjust , yet as they were couched under those general principles of ...
... justice , I desisted from opposing them ; nay more - though your bill for stopping up the port of Boston contained in it many things most cruel , unwarrantable , and unjust , yet as they were couched under those general principles of ...
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... justice and moderation ? When a commissioner of the customs , aided by a number of ruffians , assaulted the celebrated Mr. Otis in the midst of the town of Boston , and with the most barbarous violence al- most murdered him , did the ...
... justice and moderation ? When a commissioner of the customs , aided by a number of ruffians , assaulted the celebrated Mr. Otis in the midst of the town of Boston , and with the most barbarous violence al- most murdered him , did the ...
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Page 292 - 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.
Page 291 - 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 312 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Page 56 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 295 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice...
Page 311 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Page 288 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 297 - Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat, in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment o"f partaking in the midst of my fellowcitizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government — the ever favorite object of my heart and the happy...
Page 284 - ... to the permanency of your felicity as a People. These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to it, your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar occasion. Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm...
Page 252 - 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.