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... sure that if my prop- osition were futile or dangerous - if it were weakly conceived or improperly timed , there was nothing exterior to it of power to awe , dazzle , or delude you . You will see it just as it is , and you will treat it ...
... sure that if my prop- osition were futile or dangerous - if it were weakly conceived or improperly timed , there was nothing exterior to it of power to awe , dazzle , or delude you . You will see it just as it is , and you will treat it ...
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... sure that there were no rights which in their exercise under certain circum- stances , were not the most odious of all wrongs , and the most vexatious of all injustice . Sir , these considerations have great weight with me , when I find ...
... sure that there were no rights which in their exercise under certain circum- stances , were not the most odious of all wrongs , and the most vexatious of all injustice . Sir , these considerations have great weight with me , when I find ...
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... sure the Colonists had , at their leaving this country , sealed a regu- lar compact of servitude ; that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens ; that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their ...
... sure the Colonists had , at their leaving this country , sealed a regu- lar compact of servitude ; that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens ; that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their ...
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... concern . But , after all , are we equally sure that they are ad- From his speech to the electors of Bristol in 1780 . verse to our Constitution as that our statutes are hostile 40 THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS Principles in Politics (1780)
... concern . But , after all , are we equally sure that they are ad- From his speech to the electors of Bristol in 1780 . verse to our Constitution as that our statutes are hostile 40 THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS Principles in Politics (1780)
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... sure I am that such things as they and I are possessed of no such power . No man carries farther than I do the policy of making government pleasing to the people . But the widest range of this politic complaisance is confined within the ...
... sure I am that such things as they and I are possessed of no such power . No man carries farther than I do the policy of making government pleasing to the people . But the widest range of this politic complaisance is confined within the ...
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Page 27 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 38 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government— they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 23 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 18 - In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole : and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Page 16 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 16 - When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us.
Page 16 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 40 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Page 22 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 55 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.