The Life and Speeches of Thomas Williams: Orator, Statesman and Jurist, 1806-1872, a Founder of the Whig and Republican Parties, Τόμος 1

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Campion, 1905 - 757 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 215 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Σελίδα 275 - The Legislature shall not authorize any county, city, borough, township, or corporate district, by virtue of a vote of its citizens, or otherwise, to become a stockholder in any company, association, or corporation ; or to obtain money for, or loan its credit to, any corporation, association, institution or party.
Σελίδα 57 - But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future as the sun in heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day. When we are in our graves, our children will honor it. They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires and illuminations. On its annual return,...
Σελίδα 55 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Σελίδα 199 - We know of no case, in which a legislative act to transfer the property of A to B, without his consent, has ever been held a constitutional exercise of legislative power in any State in the Union. On the contrary, it has been constantly resisted as inconsistent with just principles, by every judicial tribunal in which it has been attempted to be enforced.
Σελίδα 134 - Let an account of murdered innocence be opened in the records of Heaven against our enemies alone. The American soldier will follow the example of his Government, and the sword of the one will not be raised against the fallen and the helpless, nor the gold of the other be paid for scalps of a massacred enemy.
Σελίδα 201 - ... government, it can only exercise such powers as have been delegated to it, and when it steps beyond that boundary, its acts, like those of the most humble magistrate in the State who transcends his jurisdiction, are utterly void.
Σελίδα 4 - Pittsburgh is inhabited almost entirely by Scots and Irish, who live in paltry log houses, and are as dirty as if in the north of Ireland or even Scotland.
Σελίδα 97 - Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft', familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Σελίδα 55 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.

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