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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10639 ***
+
+PHRASES FOR PUBLIC SPEAKERS
+
+AND
+
+PARAGRAPHS FOR STUDY
+
+Compiled by Grenville Kleiser
+
+1910
+
+
+
+
+TO THE STUDENT
+
+
+The experienced public speaker acquires through long practise hundreds
+of phrases which he uses over and over again. These are essential to
+readiness of speech, since they serve to hold his thought well together
+and enable him to speak fluently even upon short notice.
+
+This book is one of practise, not theory. The student should read aloud
+daily several pages of these phrases, think just what each one means,
+and whenever possible till out the phrase in his own words. A month's
+earnest practise of this kind will yield astonishing results.
+
+He should also study the paragraphs, reprinted here from notable
+speeches, and closely observe the use made of climax and other effects.
+The phrase and the paragraph are the principal elements in the public
+speaker's English style, and the student will be amply repaid for any
+time he devotes to their analysis.
+
+GRENVILLE KLEISER
+
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+USEFUL PHRASES
+
+PARAGRAPHS FROM NOTABLE SPEECHES
+
+
+
+
+
+USEFUL PHRASES
+
+
+A further objection to
+Again, can we doubt
+Again, we have abundant instances
+Alas! how often
+All experience evinces that
+All that I have been stating hitherto
+All that is quite true.
+All this, I know well enough
+All this is unnatural because
+All we do know is that
+Am I mistaken in this?
+Amid so much that is uncertain
+And, again, it is to be presumed that
+And, finally, have not these
+And, further, all that I have said
+And hence it continually happens
+And hence it is that
+And here, in passing, let us notice
+And here observe that
+And if I know anything of
+And if it is further asked why
+And I sometimes imagine that
+And I wish also to say that
+And, in fact, it is
+And it is certainly true
+And it may be admitted that
+And just here we touch the vital point in
+And let me here again refer to
+And now it begins to be apparent
+And now we are naturally brought on to
+And now we are told
+And pursuing the subject
+And so again in this day
+And so, in like manner
+And strange to say
+And such, I say, is
+And the same is true of
+And the whole point of these observations is
+And this is manifestly true
+Any thoughtful man can readily perceive
+As far as my experience goes
+As for me, I say
+As it were
+At first it does seem as tho
+At this very moment, there are
+At times we hear it said.
+
+Be it so.
+Be true to your own sense of right.
+Believe me, it is quite impossible for
+But all is not done.
+But bear in mind that
+But by no kind of calculation can we
+But do not tell me that
+But further still
+But here we take our stand.
+But I am not quite sure that
+But I digress.
+But I do not desire to obtrude a
+But I recollect that
+But I shall go still farther.
+But I submit whether it
+But I will not dwell on
+But I will not pause to point out
+But if you look seriously at facts
+But in any case
+But in fact there is no reason for
+But is it in truth so easy to
+But is it rationally conceivable that
+But it is fitting I should say
+But, it may be urged, if
+But lest it should still be argued that
+But let it be once understood that
+But let us suppose all these
+But look at the difference.
+But my idea of it is
+But now, I repeat,
+But now, lastly, let us suppose
+But now let us turn to
+But now, on the other hand, could
+But now some other things are to be noted
+But somehow all is changed!
+But the question for us is
+But to go still further
+But waiving this assumption
+But we dwell too long
+But we have faith that
+But what is the motive?
+But what then?
+But with us how changed!
+But why do we speak of
+But you may say truly
+But you must remember
+
+Can there be a better illustration than
+Can you doubt it?
+Certainly, I did not know
+Compare now the case of
+
+Did time admit I could show you
+Does anybody believe that
+Do you dream that
+Do not entertain so weak an imagination
+Do not misunderstand me.
+
+Enough has been said of
+Even apart from the vital question of
+Everybody has to say that
+
+Few people will dispute
+First, sir, permit me to observe
+For instance,
+For instance, there surely is
+For my part, I can say that I desire
+For the sake of clearness
+For this simple reason
+For what?
+Fortunately I am not obliged
+From time to time
+
+Happily for us
+Has the gentleman done?
+Have we any right to such a
+He can not do it.
+Heaven forbid!
+Hence, I repeat, it is
+Hence it is that
+Hence, too, it has often, been said
+Here I have to speak of
+Here I wish I could stop.
+Here it will be objected to me
+Here let me meet one other question
+History is replete with
+How are we to explain this
+How do you account for
+I acknowledge the force of
+I admire the indignation which
+I admit it.
+I admit, that if
+I allude to
+I am advised that already
+I am aware that
+I am distinctly maintaining
+I am expecting to hear next
+I am going to suggest
+I am in sympathy with
+I am justified in regarding
+I am led to make one remark
+I am mainly concerned with
+I am myself of opinion that
+I am naturally led on to speak of
+I am no friend to
+I am not arguing the
+I am not ashamed to acknowledge
+I am not complaining of
+I am not denying that
+I am not disposed to deny
+I am not going to attempt to
+I am not here to defend the
+I am not insensible of
+I am not justifying the
+I am not speaking of exceptions.
+I am not trying to absolve
+I am obliged to mention
+I am perfectly astounded at
+I am perfectly confident that
+I am perfectly indifferent concerning
+I am persuaded that
+I am quite certain that
+I am sanguine that those who
+I am speaking to-night for myself.
+I am sure, at least, that
+I am sure you will allow me
+I am sure you will do me the justice
+I am told that the reason
+I am well aware that
+I am willing to admit that
+I appeal to you on behalf of
+I ask how you are going to
+I ask myself
+I ask, then, as concerns the
+I ask your attention to this point.
+I assume that the argument for
+I assume, then, that
+I beg not to be interrupted here
+I beg respectfully to differ from
+I beg to assure you
+I believe I speak the sentiment of
+I believe in it as firmly as
+I believe in the
+I believe you feel, as I feel, that
+I can not believe it.
+I can not but feel that
+I can not do better than
+I can not even imagine why
+I can not, therefore, agree with
+I can not very well
+I can scarcely conceive anything
+I carry with me no hostile remembrance.
+I certainly do not recommend
+I come now to observe
+I come, then, to this
+I conclude that it was
+I confess I can not help agreeing with
+I confess my notions are
+I confess that I like to dwell on
+I confess truly
+I dare say
+I dare say to you
+I differ very much from
+I do not absolutely assert
+I do not believe that
+I do not blush to acknowledge
+I do not contend that
+I do not forget that
+I do not know on what pretense
+I do not mean to propose
+I do not mean to say
+I do not mistrust the future.
+I do not overlook tho fact that
+I do not pretend to believe
+I do not question this.
+I do not stand here before you
+I do not think it unfair reasoning to
+I do not vouch for
+I do not want to argue the question of
+I do not wish to be partial.
+I do not wish you to suppose that
+I do not yield to any one
+I entirely agree upon this point.
+I fear I only need refer to
+I firmly believe that
+I grant, of course, that
+I grant that there are
+I grant, too, of course, that
+I have all along been showing
+I have already alluded to
+I have already said, and I repeat it
+I have always argued that
+I have another objection to
+I have appealed to the testimony
+I have a right to think that
+I have been interested in hearing
+I have been requested to say a word,
+I have heard it said recently
+I have hitherto been adducing instances
+I have indicted
+I have listened with pleasure to
+I have never been able to understand
+I have never fancied that
+I have no confidence, then, in
+I have no desire in this instance
+I have no doubt that it is
+I have only to add that
+I have read of the
+I have said that
+I have so high a respect for
+I have spoken of
+I have the confident hope that
+I have the strongest reason for
+I have to appeal to you
+I heartily hope and trust
+I hope I have now made it clear that
+I hope you will acquit me of
+I insist that you do not
+I invite you to consider
+I know it is not uncommon for
+I know that there is a difference of
+I know that this will sound strange
+I know well the sentiments of
+I know whereof I speak.
+I leave it to you to say.
+I marvel that
+I may as well reply
+I may be told that
+I may say further that
+I may take it for granted
+I mention them merely
+I merely indicate
+I must beg leave to dwell a moment
+I must fairly tell you that
+I must now beg to ask
+I myself feel confident
+I often wonder
+I only wish to recognize
+I pass by that.
+I pass, then, from the question of
+I personally doubt whether it
+I plainly and positively state
+I point you to
+I proceed to inquire into
+I quote from
+I read but recently a story
+I really can not think it necessary to
+I recollect that
+I rejoice at the change that
+I remember once when
+I reply with confidence that
+I rest my opinion on
+I said just now
+I see no objection to
+I see no reason to doubt
+I shall ask you one question
+I shall attempt to show
+I shall content myself with asking
+I shall not suffer myself to
+I shall not undertake
+I shall presently show
+I shall sum up what has been said.
+I shall, then, merely sum up
+I share the conviction of
+I should hold myself obliged to
+I should not like to hold the opinion
+I speak in the most perfect honesty
+I speak only for myself.
+I suppose most men will recollect
+I take leave to say
+I take the liberty of
+I think I am right in saying
+I think I can demonstrate that
+I think it impossible that
+I think it our duty
+I think it well not to be disputed that
+I think, on the contrary, that
+I think that this is a great mistake.
+I think these facts show that
+I think we should be willing to
+I trust it will not he considered ungenerous
+I trust we are not the men to
+I turn now to another reason why
+I undertake to say
+I use the word advisedly.
+I venture to assert that
+I venture to say
+I venture to think
+I want to invite your attention to
+I want to know whether
+I was astonished to learn
+I was forcibly struck with one remark
+I was very much struck with
+I will allow more than this readily.
+I will answer, not by retort, but by
+I will call to mind this
+I will go no further
+I will not attempt to note the
+I will not enter into details
+I will not go into the evidence of
+I will not stop to inquire whether
+I will show you presently
+I will speak but a word or two more.
+I will suppose the objection urged
+I wish I could state
+I wish to call your attention to
+I wish to know
+I wish to say something about
+I wish to observe that
+I would not he understood as saying
+I would not, indeed, say a word to extenuate
+If any man were to tell me
+If any one is so short-sighted
+If I had my share
+If I hesitate, it is because
+If I insist on this point here
+If I mistake not the sentiment of
+If I must give an instance of this
+If I read the signs of the time aright
+If I were asked what it is that
+If other evidence be wanting
+If, perchance, one should say
+If such a thing were possible
+If such feelings were ever entertained
+If such is the fact, then
+If there is a man here
+If we accept at all the argument
+If we are conscious of
+If we find that
+If we resign ourselves to facts
+If you want to find out what
+If you wish the most conclusive proof
+In a broader and a larger sense
+In a sense, and a very real sense
+In answer to this singular theory
+In like manner
+In order to carry out
+In proof of this drift toward
+In proportion as
+In proportion, then,
+In pursuance of these clear and express
+In saying all this, I do not forget
+In something of a parallel
+In such cases
+In support of this claim
+In support of what I have been saying
+In the first place
+In the first place, then, I say
+In the first place there is
+In the last resort
+In the light of these things
+In this connection
+In this point of view, doubtless
+In this situation, let us
+In this respect they are
+In view of these facts, I say
+In what I have to say
+Is it fair to say that
+Is it not evident that
+Is it not quite possible that
+Is it said that
+Is not that the common sentiment?
+Is there any reason for
+It affords me unusual pleasure
+It is but too true that
+It can scarcely be imagined that
+It can not be too often repeated
+It certainly follows, then,
+It does not appear to me
+It has been maintained that
+It has been more than hinted that
+It has been said, and said truly,
+It has sometimes been remarked that
+It is a common observation that
+It is a curious fact that
+It is a fact patent to any one that
+It is a melancholy fact that
+It is a notorious fact that
+It is a thing commonly said that
+It is a very serious matter.
+It is a very serious question
+It is also to be borne in mind
+It is amazing that there are any among us
+It is an additional satisfaction
+It is an undeniable truth that
+It is apparent that
+It is certain that
+It is certainly not sufficient to say
+It is difficult to conceive that
+It is exceedingly unlikely that
+It is historically certain that
+It is in effect the reply of
+It is in quite another kind, however,
+It is, indeed, commonly said
+It is more difficult to
+It is necessary to account for
+It is no more than fitting that
+It is not a good thing to see
+It is not a wise thing to
+It is not alleged
+It is not chiefly, however,
+It is not for me here to recall
+It is not, however,
+It is not long since I had occasion
+It is not my purpose to discuss
+It is not necessary that I define
+It is not proposed to
+It is not surprizing that
+It is not to be denied that
+It is not told traditionally
+It is not true that
+It is not wonderful that
+It is observable enough
+It is of little consequence
+It is of importance that
+It is of very little importance what
+It is quite true that
+It is related of
+It is singular that
+It is the most extraordinary thing that
+It is to my mind a
+It is true, indeed, that
+It is well known that
+It is well that we clearly apprehend
+It is wholly unnecessary
+It is worthy of remark
+It looks to me to be
+It may be a matter of doubt
+It may be shown that
+It may be suggested that
+It may be supposed that
+It may in a measure be true that
+It may not be improper for me to suggest
+It must be borne in mind that
+It must be confest that
+It must be recollected that
+It need hardly be said that
+It remains for us to consider
+It remains to
+It remains to be shown that
+It reminds me of an anecdote
+It seems a truism to say
+It seems now to be generally admitted
+It should also be remembered that
+It should be remembered
+It so happens that
+It was my good fortune
+It was not so
+It was under these circumstances
+It were foolish to talk of
+It were rash to say
+It will be easy to cite
+It will be found, in the second place,
+It will be observed also that
+It will be well to recall
+It will not surely be objected
+It would be misleading to say
+It would be no less impracticable to
+It would be vain to seek
+It would do no good to repeat
+It would seem that
+
+Largely, I have no doubt, it is due
+Let it be repeated
+Let it be for an instant supposed
+Let me add that
+Let me ask who there is among us
+Let me explain myself by saying
+Let me illustrate
+Let me instance in one thing only
+Let me put the subject before you
+Let me say one word further.
+Let me tell you
+Let me tell you a very interesting story
+Let no one suppose that
+Let the truth be said outright
+Let these instances suffice
+Let us bear in mind that
+Let us consider that
+Let us go a step further.
+Let us say frankly
+Let us see whether
+Let us stand together.
+Let us look a little at
+Let us take an example in
+Let us take, first of all,
+
+Make no mistake.
+Men are often doubtful about
+Moreover, I am sure,
+Moreover, I believe that
+Much has been said of late about
+My antagonism is only aroused when
+My answer is, that
+My belief is that
+My own opinion is
+
+Nay, further than this,
+Need I speak of
+Neither is it true that
+Nevertheless, we must admit
+Next I give you the opinion of
+Next I observe that
+No man who listens to me underrates
+No matter what
+No, no.
+No objection can be brought against the
+No one realizes this more
+No one will, with justice, say
+No one will question
+No one would take the pains to challenge the
+No wonder, then, that
+Nobody really doubts that
+Nor am I, believe me, so arrogant as
+Nor can we imagine that
+Nor is this surprizing
+Nor, lastly, does this
+Not a few persons demand
+Not many words are required to show
+Not quite so.
+Not so here.
+Nothing is more certain than
+Nothing less.
+Now, after what I have said,
+Now apply this to
+Now do you observe what follows from
+Now for one moment let us
+Now I have done.
+Now, I proceed to examine
+Now I want to ask whether
+Now it is evident
+Now let us observe what
+Now, mark it.
+Now, on the other hand, let me
+Now perhaps you will ask me
+Now we come to the question
+
+Observe, if you please, that
+Occasionally it is whispered that
+Of course, it will be said that
+Of no less import is
+Of the final issue I have no doubt.
+On the contrary
+On the one hand
+On the other hand
+On the other hand, you will see
+On the whole, then, I observe
+One word more and I have done.
+Once more, how else could
+One fact is clear
+Only a few days ago
+Our position is that
+Our position is unquestionable.
+Over and over again it has been shown that
+
+Perhaps, sir, I am mistaken in
+Perhaps the reason of this may be
+Permit me to add another circumstance
+Permit me to remind you
+Please remember that if
+
+Readily we admit that
+
+Since you have suffered me to
+So far is clear, but
+So it came naturally about
+So much for
+Some men think, indeed, that
+Some persons have exprest surprize that
+Something of extravagance there may be in
+Strange as it may seem
+Strictly speaking, it is not
+Such an avowal is not
+Such is not my theory.
+Such is steadfastly my opinion that
+Such is the truth.
+Such, then, is the answer whir I make to
+Supposing, for instance,
+Surely I do not misinterpret the spirit
+Surely it is preposterous
+Surely, then,
+Surely, this is good and clear reasoning.
+
+Take, again, the case of
+Take the instance of
+That is quite obvious.
+That we might have done.
+The audacity of the statement is
+The charge is false.
+The conclusion is irresistible.
+The contempt that is cast
+The fact is substantially true.
+The fact, is that there is not
+The fact need not be concealed that
+The facts are before us all
+The first point to be ascertained is
+The language is perfectly plain.
+The least desirable form of
+The more I consider this question
+The plea serves well with
+The point I wish to bring out
+The problem that presents itself is
+The question at issue is primarily
+The question is not
+The question presented is
+The question with me is
+The substance of all this is
+The time is not far distant when
+The time is short.
+The truth of this has not been
+Then, finally,
+Then, I repeat,
+There are many people nowadays who
+There are people who tell you that
+There is a cynicism which
+There is a word which I wish to say
+There is another reason why
+There is another sense in which.
+There is much force in
+There is no danger of our overrating the
+There is no evidence that
+There is no good reason why
+There is no mistaking the fact
+There is no other intelligible answer
+There is no parallel to
+There is no sufficient reason for
+There is none other.
+There is not a shadow of
+There is one other point connected with
+There is one other point to which
+There is something suggestive in
+There was a time when none denied it.
+These absurd pretensions
+They did what they could.
+This being the case, you will see
+This brings me to a point on which
+This does not mean
+This expectation was disappointed.
+This I have already shown
+This is a great mistake.
+This is it's last resort.
+This is the only remaining alternative.
+This leads me to the question
+This relieves me of the necessity of
+This is clearly perceived by
+This is especially true of
+This is essentially a question of
+This is very different from
+Tho all this is obvious
+Thus, you see
+To avoid all possibility of being
+To be sure
+To-day I have additional satisfaction in
+To my own mind,
+To my own mind, certainly, it is
+To pass from that I notice
+To take a very different instance
+To this end we must
+To this, likewise, it may be added
+To this there can be but one answer.
+To show all this is easy and certain.
+To show this in fact
+To sum up, then
+Truly, gentlemen
+
+Unless I am wholly wrong
+Unless I greatly mistake the temper
+
+We all remember
+We are all aware that
+We are here to discuss
+We are now able to determine
+We are told that
+We can not leave unchallenged the
+We deny it.
+We have an instance in
+We have no right to say
+We, in our turn, must
+We know they will not
+We laugh to scorn the idea
+We look around us
+We may have an overpowering sense of
+We may rest assured that
+We must not propose in
+We often speak of
+We ought, first of all, to note
+We should pause to consider
+We will hear much in these days
+We will not examine the proof of
+What are you asked to do?
+What are you going to do?
+What can be more intelligible than
+What do you say to
+What do we understand by
+What has become of it?
+What is more remarkable still
+What is the answer to all this?
+What is this but an acknowledgment of
+What is your opinion?
+What then remains?
+What we do say is
+When all has been said, there remains
+When I look around me
+When it can be shown that
+When it is recognized that
+When that is said, all is said
+When we contemplate the
+When we reflect on these sentiments
+Where there is prejudice, it is no use to argue.
+Who finds fault with these things?
+Why should an argument be required to prove that
+Why should it be necessary to confirm
+Will you tell me how
+With possibly a single exception
+With regard to what has been stated
+
+Yet it is plain
+Yet, strange to say,
+You and I may hold that
+You can not assert that
+You can not invent a series of argument
+You can not say that
+You do not pretend that
+You have the authority of
+You know as well as I do
+You may object at once, and say
+You may object that
+You may point, if you will, to
+You may search the history of
+You tell me that
+You will say that
+
+
+
+
+PARAGRAPHS FROM NOTABLE SPEECHES
+
+
+Let me here pause once more to ask whether the book in its genuine
+state, as far as we have advanced in it, makes the same impression on
+your minds now as when it was first read to you in detached passages;
+and whether, if I were to tear off the first part of it, which I hold in
+my hand, and give it to you as an entire work, the first and last
+passages, which have been selected as libels on the Commons, would now
+appear to be so when blended with the interjacent parts? I do not ask
+your answer--I shall have it in your verdict. THOMAS LORD ERSKINE.
+
+From "Speech in Behalf of Stockdale."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Indeed, many of the statements we now read of the necessity of the wise
+governing the weak and ignorant are almost literal reproductions of the
+arguments advanced by the slaveholders of the South in defence of
+slavery just preceding the outbreak of the Civil War. That divergence
+from our original ideal produced the pregnant sayings of Mr. Lincoln, "A
+house divided against itself can not stand," and its corollary, "This
+nation can not permanently endure half slave and half free." He saw
+dearly that American democracy must rest, if it continued to exist, upon
+the ethical ideal which presided over its birth--that of the absolute
+equality of all men in political rights. WAYNE MACVEAGH.
+
+From, "Ideals in American Politics."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The idea of liberty is license; it is not liberty but it is license.
+License to do what? License to violate law, to trample constitutions
+under foot, to take life, to take property, to use the bludgeon and the
+gun or anything else for the purpose of giving themselves power. What
+statesman ever heard of that us a definition of liberty? What man in a
+civilized age has ever heard of liberty being the unrestrained license
+of the people to do as they please without any restraint of law or of
+authority? No man--no, not one--until we found the Democratic party,
+would advocate this proposition and indorse and encourage this kind of
+license in a free country. JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN.
+
+From "Self-government in Louisiana."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+My countrymen, we do not now differ in our judgment concerning the
+controversies of past generations, and fifty years hence our children
+will be divided in their opinions concerning our controversies. They
+will surely bless their fathers and their fathers' God that the Union
+was preserved, that slavery was overthrown, and that both races were
+made equal before the law. We may hasten or we may retard, but we can
+not prevent the final reconciliation. Is it not possible for us now to
+make a truce with time, by anticipating and accepting its inevitable
+verdicts? Enterprises of the highest importance to our moral and
+material well-being invite us, and offer ample scope for the employment
+of our best powers. Let all our people, leaving behind them the
+battle-fields of dead issues, move forward, and, in the strength of
+liberty and a restored Union, win the grander victories of peace. JAMES
+ABRAM GARFIELD.
+
+From "Inaugural Address."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I wish you, by the aid of the training which I recommend, to be able to
+look beyond your own lives and have pleasure in surroundings different
+from those in which you move. I want you to be able--and mark this
+point--to sympathize with other times, to be able to understand the men
+and women of other countries, and to have the intense enjoyment--an
+enjoyment which I am sure you would all appreciate--of mental change of
+scene. I do not only want you to know dry facts; I am not only looking
+to a knowledge of facts, nor chiefly to that knowledge. I want the
+heart to be stirred as well as the intellect. I want you to feel more
+and live more than you can do if you only know what surrounds
+yourselves. I want the action of the imagination, the sympathetic study
+of history and travels, the broad teaching of the poets, and, indeed, of
+the best writers of other times and other countries, to neutralize and
+check the dwarfing influences of necessarily narrow careers and
+necessarily stunted lives. That is the point which you will see I mean
+when I ask you to cultivate the imagination. I want to introduce you to
+other, wider, and nobler fields of thought, and to open up vistas of
+other worlds, when refreshing and bracing breezes will stream upon your
+minds and souls. GEORGE JOACHIM GOSCHEN.
+
+From "On the Cultivation of the Imagination."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+But it is a noteworthy fact that eminent qualities in men may often be
+traced to similar qualities in their mothers. Knowledge, it is true, is
+not hereditary, but high mental qualities are so, and experience and
+observation seem to prove that the transmission is chiefly through the
+mother's side. But leaving this physiological view, let us look at the
+purely educational. Imagine an educated mother training and molding the
+powers of her children, giving to them in the years of infancy those
+gentle yet permanent tendencies which are of more account in the
+formation of character than any subsequent educational influences,
+selecting for them the best instructors, encouraging and aiding them in
+their difficulties, rejoicing with them in their successes, able to take
+an intelligent interest in their progress in literature and science.
+JOHN WILLIAM DAWSON.
+
+From "On the Higher Education of Women."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It only remains to remind you that another consideration has been
+strongly prest upon you, and, no doubt, will be insisted on in reply.
+You will be told that the matters which I have been justifying as legal,
+and even meritorious, have therefore not been made the subject of
+complaint; and that whatever intrinsic merit parts of the book may be
+supposed or even admitted to possess, such merit can afford no
+justification to the selected passages, some of which, even with, the
+context, carry the meaning charged by the information, and which, are
+indecent animadversions on authority. THOMAS LORD ERSKINE
+
+From "Speech in Behalf of Blockdale."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+But let it now for argument's sake be admitted, saving always the
+reputation of honorable men who are not here to defend themselves--let
+it, I say, for argument's sake, be admitted that the gentlemen alluded
+to acted under the influence of improper motives. What then? Is a law
+that has received the varied assent required by the Constitution and is
+clothed with all the needful formalities thereby invalidated? Can you
+impair its force by impeaching the motives of any member who voted for
+it? GOUVERNEUR MORRIS.
+
+From "Speech on the Judiciary."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+Let us pause, sir, before we give an answer to this question. The fate
+of us, the fate of millions now alive, the fate of millions yet unborn,
+depend upon the answer. Let it be the result of calmness and
+intrepidity; let it be dictated by the principles of loyalty and the
+principles of liberty. Let it be such as never, in the worst events, to
+give us reason to reproach ourselves, or others reason to reproach us,
+for having done too much or too little. JAMES WILSON.
+
+From "Vindication of the Colonies."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It is impossible to deny the facts, which were so glaring at the time.
+It is a painful thing to me, sir, to be obliged to go back to these
+unfortunate periods of the history of this war and of the conduct of
+this country; but I am forced to the task by the use which has been made
+of the atrocities of the French as an argument against negotiation. I
+think I have said enough to prove that if the French have been guilty we
+have not been innocent. Nothing but determined incredulity can make us
+deaf and blind to our own acts, when we are so ready to yield an assent
+to all the reproaches which are thrown out on the enemy, and upon which
+reproaches we are gravely told to continue the war. CHARLES JAMES FOX.
+
+From "On the Rejection of Bonaparte's Overtures."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now I think the people ought not to be made to wait for the relief they
+have a right to demand. They ought not to be made to suffer while we
+argue one another out of the recorded and inveterate opinions of our
+whole lives. I say, therefore, for myself, that, anxious to afford them
+all the relief which they require, regretting that the state of opinion
+around me puts it out of my power to afford that relief in the form I
+might prefer. I accommodate myself to my position, and make haste to do
+all that I can by the shortest way that I can. Consider how much better
+it is to relieve them to some substantial extent by this means, at once,
+than not to relieve at all, than not to initiate a system or measure of
+relief at all, and then go home at the end of this session of Congress,
+weak and weary, and spend the autumn in trying to persuade them that it
+was the fault of some of our own friends that nothing was done. How poor
+a compensation for wrongs to the people will be the victories over our
+friends! RUFUS CHOATE.
+
+From "The Necessity of Compromises in American Politics."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It is of the very essence of true patriotism, therefore, to be earnest
+and truthful, to scorn the flatterer's tongue, and strive to keep its
+native land in harmony with the laws of national thrift and power. It
+will tell a land of its faults as a friend will counsel a companion. It
+will speak as honestly as the physician advises a patient. And if
+occasion requires, an indignation will flame out of its love like that
+which burst from the lips of Moses when he returned from the mountain
+and found the people to whom he had revealed the austere Jehovah and for
+whom he would cheerfully have sacrificed his life worshiping a calf.
+THOMAS STARR KING.
+
+From "On the Privilege and Duties of Patriotism."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Our President is dead. He has served us faithfully and well. He has kept
+the faith; he has finished his course. Henceforth there is laid up for
+him a crown of glory, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give
+him in that day. And He who gave him to us, and who so abundantly blest
+his labors, and helped him to accomplish so much for his country and his
+race, will not permit the country which He saved to perish. I believe in
+the overruling providence of God, and that, in permitting the life of
+our Chief Magistrate to be extinguished, He only closed one volume of
+the history of His dealings with this nation, to open another whose
+pages shall be illustrated with fresh developments of His love and
+sweeter signs of His mercy. What Mr. Lincoln achieved he achieved for
+us; but he left as a choice a legacy in his Christian example, in his
+incorruptible integrity, and in his unaffected simplicity, if we will
+appropriate it, as in his public deeds. So we take this excellent life
+and its results, and, thanking God for them, cease all complaining and
+press forward under new leaders to now achievements, and the completion
+of the great work which he who has gone left as a sacred trust upon our
+hands. JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND.
+
+From "Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Patriotism says, and says it in the interest of peace and economy and
+final fraternity, "Fight and conquer even at the risk of holding them
+for a generation under the yoke." Fight, tho, on such a scale that there
+will be no need of holding them; that they will gladly submit again to
+the rule which makes the republic one and blesses all portions with
+protection and with bounty. Fight till they shall know that they kick
+against fate and the resistless laws of the world! Patriotism calls on
+the Cabinet and the head of the nation and the generals who give tone to
+the campaign to forget the customs and interests of peace till we shall
+gain it by the submission of the rebels and the shredding of their last
+banner into threads. THOMAS STARR KING.
+
+From "On the Privilege and Duties of Patriotism."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+For myself, I believe that whatever estrangements may have existed in
+the past, or may linger among us now, are born of ignorance and will be
+dispelled by knowledge. I believe that of our forty-five States there
+are no two who, if they could meet in the familiarity of the
+intercourse, in the fulness of personal knowledge, would not only cease
+to entertain any bitterness, or alienation, or distrust, but each would
+utter to the other the words of the Jewish daughter, in that most
+exquisite of idylls which has come down to us almost from the beginning
+of time:
+
+"Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee;
+for whither thou guest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will
+lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
+
+"Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do
+so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee." GEORGE
+FRISBIE HOAR.
+
+From "Address at the Banquet of the New England Society."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He knew full well and displayed in his many splendid speeches and
+addresses that one unerring purpose of freedom and of union ran through
+her whole history; that there was no accident in it all; that all the
+generations, from the _Mayflower_ down, marched to one measure and
+followed one flag; that all the struggles, all the self-sacrifice, all
+the prayers and the tears, all the fear of God, all the soul-trials, all
+the yearnings for national life, of more than two centuries, had
+contributed to make the country that he served and loved. He, too,
+preached, in season and out of season, the gospel of Nationality. JOSEPH
+HODGES CHOATE.
+
+From "Oration on Rufus Choate."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I leave these fellows and turn for a moment to their victims. And I
+would here, without any reference to my own case, earnestly implore that
+sympathy with political sufferers should not be merely telescopic in its
+character, "distance lending enchantment to the view"; and that
+when your statesmen sentimentalize upon, and your journalists denounce,
+far-away tyrannies--the horrors of Neapolitan dungeons--the abridgment
+of personal freedom in continental countries--the exercise of arbitrary
+power by irresponsible authority in other lands--they would turn their
+eyes homeward and examine the treatment and the sufferings of their own
+political prisoners. I would in all sincerity suggest that humane and
+well-meaning men who exert themselves for the remission of the
+death-penalty as a mercy would rather implore that the doom of solitary
+and silent captivity should be remitted to the more merciful doom of an
+immediate relief from suffering by immediate execution--the opportunity
+of an immediate appeal from man's cruelty to God's justice. STEPHEN
+JOSEPH MEANY.
+
+From "Legality of Arrest."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Do you ask me our duty as scholars? Gentlemen, thought, which the
+scholar represents, is life and liberty. There is no intellectual or
+moral life without liberty. Therefore, as a man must breathe and see
+before he can study, the scholar must have liberty first of all; and as
+the American scholar is a man and has a voice in his own government, so
+his interest in political affairs must precede all others. He must build
+his house before he can live in it. He must be a perpetual inspiration
+of freedom in politics. He must recognize that the intelligent exercise
+of political rights, which is a privilege in a monarchy, is a duty in a
+republic If it clash with his case, his retirement, his taste, his
+study, let it clash, but let him do his duty. The course of events is
+incessant, and when the good deed is slighted, the bad deed is done.
+GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.
+
+From "The Duty of the American Scholar."
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Let us, then, go straight forward to our duty, taking heed of nothing
+but the right. In this wise shall we build a work in accord with the
+will of Him who is daily fashioning the world to a higher destiny; a
+work resting at no point upon wrong or injustice, but everywhere
+reposing upon truth and justice; a work which all mankind will be
+interested in preserving in every age, since it will insure the
+increasing glory and well-being of mankind through all ages. IGNATIUS
+DONNELLY.
+
+From "Reconstruction."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We are not only to do some things, but we are to do all things, and we
+are to continue so to do, so that the least deviation from the moral
+law, according to the covenant of works, whether in thought, word, or
+deed, deserves eternal death at the hand of God. And if one evil
+thought, if one evil word, if one evil action deserves eternal
+damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve whose
+lives have been one continued rebellion against God! Before ever,
+therefore, you can speak peace to your hearts, you must be brought to
+see, brought to believe, what a dreadful thing it is to depart from the
+living God. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.
+
+From Sermon, "On the Method of Grace."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I say we must necessarily undo these violent, oppressive acts. They must
+he repealed. You will repeal them. I pledge myself for it that you will
+in the end repeal them. I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to
+be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed. Avoid, then,
+this humiliating, disgraceful necessity. With a dignity becoming your
+exalted situation make the first advances to concord, to peace, and
+happiness; for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and
+justice. That you should first concede is obvious, from sound and
+rational policy. Concession comes with better grace and more salutary
+effect from superior power. It reconciles superiority of power with the
+feelings of men, and establishes solid confidence on the foundations of
+affection and gratitude. LORD CHATHAM.
+
+From "On Removing Troops from Boston." For aught I know the next flash
+of electric fire that simmers along the ocean cable may tell us that
+Paris, with every fiber quivering with the agony of impotent despair,
+writhes beneath the conquering heel of her loathed invader. Ere another
+moon shall wax and wane the brightest star in the galaxy of nations may
+fall from the zenith of her glory never to rise again. Ere the modest
+violets of early spring shall ope their beauteous eyes the genius of
+civilization may chant the wailing requiem of the proudest nationality
+the world has ever seen, as she shatters her withered and tear-moistened
+lilies o'er the bloody tomb of butchered France. JAMES PROCTOR KNOTT.
+
+From Speech on "Duluth."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Among her noblest children his native city will cherish him, and
+gratefully recall the unbending Puritan soul that dwelt in a form so
+gracious and urbane. The plain house in which he lived--severely plain,
+because the welfare of the suffering and the slave were preferred to
+books and pictures and every fair device of art; the house to which the
+north star led the trembling fugitive, and which the unfortunate and
+friendless knew; the radiant figure passing swiftly through the streets,
+plain as the house from which it came, regal with royalty beyond that of
+kings; the ceaseless charity untold; the strong sustaining heart of
+private friendship; the eloquence which, like the song of Orpheus, will
+fade from living memory into a doubtful tale; that great scene of his
+youth in Faneuil Hall; the surrender of ambition; the mighty agitation
+and the mighty triumph with which his name is forever blended; the
+consecration of a life hidden with God in sympathy with man--these, all
+these, will live among your immortal traditions, heroic even in your
+heroic story. But not yours alone! As years go by, and only the large
+outlines of lofty American characters and careers remain, the wide
+republic will confess the benediction of a life like this, and gladly
+own that if with perfect faith and hope assured America would still
+stand and "bid the distant generations hail," the inspiration of her
+national life must be the sublime moral courage, the all-embracing
+humanity, the spotless integrity, the absolutely unselfish, devotion of
+great powers to great public ends, which were the glory of Wendell
+Phillips. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.
+
+From "Eulogy of Wendell Phillips."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No, it is something else than circumstances which makes us do God's
+will, just as it is something else than miracle which makes us believe
+His word. Miracle and circumstances do their part. They assist the
+heart; they make the task of the will easier; they do not compel
+obedience. He who has made us free respects our freedom even when we
+use it against Himself--even when we resist His own must gracious and
+gentle pressure and choose to disbelieve or to disobey Him. If Moses and
+the prophets are to persuade us--if we are not to be beyond persuasion,
+tho one rose from the dead--there must be that inward seeking, yearning
+after God, that wholeness of heart, that tender and affectionate
+disposition toward Him who is the end as He is the source of our
+existence, of which the Bible is so full from first to last--which is
+the very essence of religion--which He, its object and its author, gives
+most assuredly to all who ask Him. HENRY PARRY LIDDON.
+
+From Sermon, "The Adequacy of Present Opportunities."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Instantly under such an influence you ascend above the smoke and stir of
+this small local strife; you tread upon the high places of the earth and
+of history; you think and feel as an American for America; her power,
+her eminence, her consideration, her honor, are yours; your competitors,
+like hers, are kings; your home, like hers, is the world; your path,
+like hers, is on the highway of empires; our charge, her charge, is of
+generations and ages; your record, her record, is of treaties, battles,
+voyages, beneath all the constellations; her image, one, immortal,
+golden, rises on your eye as our western star at evening rises on the
+traveler from his home; no lowering cloud, no angry river, no lingering
+spring, no broken crevasse, no inundated city or plantation, no tracts
+of sand, arid and burning, on that surface, but all blended and softened
+into one beam of kindred rays, the image, harbinger, and promise of
+love, hope, and a brighter day! RUFUS CHOATE.
+
+From "Oration on American Nationality."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I believe in woman-suffrage for the sake of woman herself. I believe in
+it because I am the son of a woman and the husband of a woman and the
+father of a prospective woman. I remember that at one of the first
+woman-suffrage meetings I ever attended one of the first speakers was an
+odd fellow from the neighboring town, considered half a lunatic. That
+didn't make much impression in those days when we were all considered a
+little crazy, but he was a little crazier than the rest of us. He pushed
+forward on the platform, seeming impatient to speak, and throwing his
+old hat down by his side, he said, "I don't know much about this subject
+nor any other; but I know this, my mother was a woman." I thought it was
+the best condensed woman-suffrage argument I ever heard in my life.
+THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.
+
+From "For Self-respect and Self-protection." When the people complain
+they must either be right or in error. If they be right, we are in duty
+bound to inquire into the conduct of the ministers and to punish those
+who appear to have been most guilty. If they be in error, we ought still
+to inquire into the conduct of our ministers in order to convince the
+people that they have been misled. We ought not, therefore, in any
+question relating to inquiry, to be governed by our own sentiments. We
+must be governed by the sentiments of our constituents if we are
+resolved to perform our duty both as true representatives of the people
+and as faithful subjects of our king. LORD CHATHAM.
+
+From "Second Speech on Sir Robert Walpole."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+For this great evil some immediate remedy must be provided; and I
+confess, my lords, I did hope that his Majesty's servants would not have
+suffered so many years of peace to relapse without paying some attention
+to an object which ought to engage and interest all. I flattered myself I
+should see some barriers thrown up in defense of the constitution; some
+impediment formed to stop the rapid progress of corruption. I doubt not
+we all agree that something must be done. I shall offer my thoughts,
+such as they are, to the consideration of the House; and I wish that
+every noble lord that hears me would be as ready as I am to contribute
+his opinion to this important service. I will not call my own sentiments
+crude and undigested. It would he unfit for me to offer anything to your
+lordships which I had not well considered; and this subject, I own, has
+not long occupied my thoughts. I will now give them to your lordships
+without reserve. LORD CHATHAM.
+
+From "Speech On the State of the Nation."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We have the freedom and freshness of a youthful nationality. We can
+trace out new paths which must be followed by our successors; we have a
+right to plant wherever we please the trees under shade of which they
+will sit. The independence which we thus enjoy, and the freedom to
+originate which we can claim, are in themselves privileges, but
+privileges that carry with them great responsibilities. JOHN WILLIAM
+DAWSON.
+
+From "On the Progress of Science in Canada."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+From your great cities and teeming prairies, from your learned altars
+and countless cottages, from your palaces on sea and land, from your
+millions on the waters and your multiplied millions on the plains, let
+one united cheering voice meet the voice that now comes so earnest from
+the South, and let the two voices go up in harmonious, united, eternal,
+ever-swelling chorus, Flag of our Union! wave on; wave ever! Ay, for it
+waves over freemen, not subjects; over States, not provinces; over a
+union of equals, not of lords and vassals; over a land of law, of
+liberty, and peace, not of anarchy, oppression, and strife! BENJAMIN
+HARVEY HILL.
+
+From "On the Perils of the Nation."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It is really astonishing to hear such an argument seriously urged in
+this House. But, say these gentlemen, if you found yourself upon a
+precipice, would you stand to inquire how you were led there before you
+considered how to get off? No, sir; but if a guide had led me there I
+should very probably be provoked to throw him over before I thought of
+anything else. At least I am sure I should not trust to the same guide
+for bringing me off; and this, sir, is the strongest argument that can
+be used for an inquiry. LORD CHATHAM.
+
+From "Speech on Sir Robert Walpole."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+But let us hope for better things. Let us trust in that gracious Being
+who has hitherto held our country as in the hollow of his hand. Let us
+trust to the virtue and the intelligence of the people, and to the
+efficacy of religious obligation. Let us trust to the influence of
+Washington's example. Let us hope that that fear of heaven which expels
+all other fear, and that regard to duty which transcends all other
+regard, may influence public men and private citizens, and lead our
+country still onward in her happy career. Full of these gratifying
+anticipations and hopes, let us look forward to the end of that century
+which is now commenced. A hundred years hence other disciples of
+Washington will celebrate his birth, with no less of sincere admiration
+than we now commemorate it. When they shall meet, as we now meet, to do
+themselves and him that honor, so surely as they shall see the blue
+summits to his native mountains rise in the horizon, so surely as they
+shall behold the river on whose banks he lived, and on whose banks he
+rests, still flowing on toward the sea, so surely may they see, as we
+now see, the flag of the Union floating on the top of the capitol; and
+then, as now, may the sun in his course visit no land more free, more
+happy, more lovely, than this our own country! DANIEL WEBSTER.
+
+From "The Character of Washington."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I am now talking of the invisible realities of another world, of inward
+religion, of the work of God upon a poor sinner's heart. I am now
+talking of a matter of great importance, my dear hearers; you are all
+concerned in it, your souls are concerned in it, your eternal salvation
+is concerned in it. You may be all at peace, but perhaps the devil
+has lulled you asleep into a carnal lethargy and security, and will
+endeavor to keep you there till he get you to hell, and there you will
+be awakened; but it will be dreadful to be awakened and find yourselves
+so fearfully mistaken, when the great gulf is fixt, when you will be
+calling to all eternity for a drop of water to cool your tongue and
+shall not obtain it. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.
+
+From "On the Method of Grace."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Why, sir, have I been so careful in bringing down with great
+particularity these distinctions? Because in my judgment there are
+certain logical consequences following from them as necessarily as
+various corollaries from a problem in Euclid. If we are at war, as I
+think, with a foreign country, to all intents and purposes, how can a
+man here stand up and say that he is on the side of that foreign country
+and not be an enemy to his country? BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER.
+
+From "Character and Results of War."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+My lords, this awful subject, so important to our honor, constitution,
+and our religion, demands the most solemn and effectual inquiry. And
+again I call upon your lordships, and the united powers of the State, to
+examine it thoroughly and decisively and to stamp upon it an indelible
+stigma of the public abhorrence. And again I implore those holy prelates
+of our religion to do away these iniquities from among us. Let them
+perform an illustration; let them purify this House and this country
+from this sin. LORD CHATHAM.
+
+From "The Attempt to Subjugate America."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now, there are three questions before the people of the country to-day,
+and they are all public, all unselfish, all patriotic, all elevated, and
+all ennobling as subjects of contemplation and of action. They are the
+public peace in this large and general sense that I have indicated. They
+are the public faith, without which there is no such thing as honorable
+national life; and the public service, which unless pure and strong and
+noble makes all the pagans of free government but doggerel in our ears.
+WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS.
+
+From "The Day We Celebrate."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Indeed, gentlemen, Washington's farewell address is full of truths
+important at all times, and particularly deserving consideration at the
+present. With a sagacity which brought the future before him, and made
+it like the present, he saw and pointed out the dangers that even at
+this moment most imminently threaten us. I hardly know how a greater
+service of that kind could now be done to the community than by a
+renewed and wide diffusion of that admirable paper, and an earnest
+invitation to every man in the country to reperuse and consider it. Its
+political maxims are invaluable; its exhortations to love of country and
+to brotherly affection among citizens, touching; and the solemnity with
+which it urges the observance of moral duties, and impresses the power
+of religious obligation, gives to it the highest character of truly
+disinterested, sincere, parental advice. DANIEL WEBSTER.
+
+From "The Character of Washington."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonor; let no man
+attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause
+but that of my country's liberty and independence; or that I could have
+become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my
+countrymen. The proclamation of the provisional government speaks for
+our views; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarily
+or debasement at home, or subjection, humiliation, or treachery from
+abroad. I would not have submitted to a foreign oppressor for the same
+reason that I would resist the foreign and domestic oppressor; in the
+dignity of freedom I would have fought upon the threshold of my country,
+and its enemy should enter only by passing over my lifeless corpse. Am
+I, who lived but for my country, and who have subjected myself to the
+dangers of the jealous and watchful oppressor and the bondage of the
+grave only to give my countrymen their rights and my country her
+independence--am I to be loaded with calumny and not suffered to resent
+or repel it? No, God forbid! ROBERT EMMET.
+
+From "Speech when under Sentence of Death."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When the law is the will of the people, it will be uniform and coherent;
+but fluctuation, contradiction, and inconsistency of councils must be
+expected under those governments where every evolution in the ministry
+of a court produces one in the State--such being the folly and pride of
+all ministers, that they ever pursue measures directly opposite to those
+of their predecessors. SAMUEL ADAMS.
+
+From "American Independence."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I refer to the past not in malice, for this is no day for malice, but
+simply to place more distinctly in front the gratifying and glorious
+change which has come both to our white fellow citizens and ourselves
+and to congratulate all upon the contrast between now and then, the new
+dispensation of freedom with its thousand blessings to both races, and
+the old dispensation of slavery with its ten thousand evils to both
+races--white and black. In view, then, of the past, the present, and the
+future, with the long and dark history of our bondage behind us, and
+with liberty, progress and enlightenment before us, I again congratulate
+you upon this auspicious day and hour. FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
+
+From "Inauguration of the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham
+Lincoln."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In all popular tumults the worst men bear the sway at first. Moderate
+and good men are often silent for fear of modesty, who in good time may
+declare themselves. Those who have any property to lose are sufficiently
+alarmed already at the progress of these public violences and violations
+to which every man's dwelling, person, and property are hourly exposed.
+Numbers of such valuable men and good subjects are ready and willing to
+declare themselves for the support of government in due time, if
+government does not fling away its own authority. LORD MANSFIELD.
+
+From "The Right of England to Tax America."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In jurisprudence, which reluctantly admits any new adjunct, and counts
+in its train a thousand champions ready to rise in defense of its
+formularies and technical rules, the victory has been brilliant and
+decisive. The civil and the common law have yielded to the pressure of
+the times, and have adopted much which philosophy and experience have
+recommended, altho it stood upon no test of the pandects and claimed no
+support from the feudal polity. Commercial law, at least so far as
+England and America are concerned, is the creation of the eighteenth
+century. It started into life with the genius of Lord Mansfield, and,
+gathering in its course whatever was valuable in the earlier institutes
+of foreign countries, had reflected back upon them its own superior
+lights, so as to become the guide and oracle of the commercial world.
+JOSEPH STORY.
+
+From "Characteristics of the Age."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When that history comes to be written you know whose will be the central
+and prominent figure. You know that Mr. Gladstone will stand out before
+posterity as the greatest man of his time--remarkable not only for his
+extraordinary eloquence, for his great ability, for his stedfastness of
+purpose, for his constructive skill, but more, perhaps, than all these,
+for his personal character, and for the high tone that he has introduced
+into our polities and public fife. I sometimes think that great men are
+like great mountains, and that we do not appreciate their magnitude
+while we are close to them. You have to go to a distance to see which
+peak it is that towers above its fellows; and it may be that we shall
+have to put between us and Mr. Gladstone a space of time before we shall
+see how much greater he has been than any of his competitors for fame
+and power. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN.
+
+From "On Liberal Aims."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Let us never despair of our country. Actual evils can be mitigated; bad
+tendencies can be turned aside; the burdens of government can be
+diminished; productive industry will be renewed; and frugality will
+repair the waste of our resources. Then shall the golden days of the
+republic once more return, and the people become prosperous and happy,
+SAMUEL JONES TILDEN.
+
+From "Address on Administrative Reform."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Had Abraham Lincoln died from any of the numerous ills to which flesh is
+heir; had he reached that good old age to which his rigorous
+constitution and his temperate habits gave promise; had he been
+permitted to see the end of his great work; had the solemn curtain of
+death come down but gradually, we should still have been smitten with a
+heavy grief and treasured his name lovingly. But dying as he did die, by
+the red hand of violence; killed, assassinated, taken off without
+warning, not because of personal hate, but because of his fidelity to
+Union and liberty, he is doubly dear to us and will be precious forever.
+FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
+
+From "Inauguration of the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham
+Lincoln."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Let this be an occasion of joy. Why should it not be so! Is not the
+heaven over your heads, which has so long been clothed in sackcloth,
+beginning to disclose its starry principalities and illumine your
+pathway? Do you not see the pitiless storm which, has so long been
+pouring its rage upon you breaking away, and a bow of promise as
+glorious as that which succeeded the ancient deluge spanning the sky--a
+token that to the end of time the billows of prejudice and oppression
+shall no more cover the earth to the destruction of your race; but
+seedtime and harvest shall never fail, and the laborer shall eat the
+fruit of his hands. Is not your cause developing like the spring? Yours
+has been a long and rigorous winter. The chill of contempt, the frost of
+adversity, the blast of persecution, the storm of oppression--all have
+been yours. There was no substance to be found--no prospect to delight
+the eye or inspire the drooping heart--no golden ray to dissipate the
+gloom. The waves of derision were stayed by no barrier, but made a
+clear breach over you. But now--thanks be to God! that dreary winter is
+rapidly hastening away. The sun of humanity is going steadily up from
+the horizon to its zenith, growing larger and brighter, and melting the
+frozen earth beneath, its powerful rays. The genial showers of
+repentance are softly falling upon the barren plain; the wilderness is
+budding like the rose; the voice of joy succeeds the cotes of we; and
+hope, like the lark, is soaring upward and warbling hymns at the gate of
+heaven. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.
+
+"From Words of Encouragement to the Opprest."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Listen to the voice of justice and of reason; it cries to us that human
+judgments are never certain enough to warrant society in giving death to
+a man convicted by other men liable to error. Had you imagined the most
+perfect judicial system; had you found the most upright and enlightened
+judges, there will always remain some room for error or prejudice. Why
+interdict to yourselves the means of reparation? Why condemn yourself to
+powerlessness to help opprest innocence? What good can come of the
+sterile regrets, these illusory reparations you grant to a vain shade,
+to insensible ashes? They are the sad testimonials of the barbarous
+temerity of your penal laws. To rob the man of the possibility of
+expiating his crime by his repentance or by acts of virtue; to close to
+him without mercy every return toward a proper life, and his own esteem;
+to hasten his descent, as it were, into the grave still covered with the
+recent blotch, of his crime, is in my eyes the most horrible refinement
+of cruelty. MAXIMILIEN MARIE ISIDORE ROBESPIERRE.
+
+From "Against Capital Punishment."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+And love, young men, love and venerate the ideal. The ideal is the word
+of God. High above every country, high above humanity, is the country of
+the spirit, the city of the soul, in which all are brethren who believe
+in the inviolability of thought and in the dignity of our immortal soul;
+and the baptism of this fraternity is martyrdom. From that high sphere
+spring the principles which alone can redeem the peoples. Arise for the
+sake of these, and not from impatience of suffering or dread of evil.
+Anger, pride, ambition, and the desire of material prosperity, are
+common alike to the peoples and their oppressors, and even should you
+conquer with these to-day, you would fall again to-morrow; but
+principles belong to the peoples alone, and their oppressors can find no
+arms to oppose them. Adore enthusiasm, the dreams of the virgin soul,
+and the visions of early youth, for they are a perfume of paradise which
+the soul retains in issuing from the hands of its Creator. Respect,
+above all things, your conscience; have upon your lips the truth
+implanted by God in your hearts, and, while laboring in harmony, even
+with those who differ from you, in all that tends to the emancipation of
+our soil, yet ever bear your own banner erect and boldly promulgate your
+own faith. GIUSEPPE MAZZINI.
+
+From "To the Young Men of Italy."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Even if we conquer the South, as conquer we must, unless chastened by
+visible misfortunes in the North, our triumph breeding unbounded
+conceit, we plunge the deeper in the vortex of voluptuous prosperity,
+our country forgotten by the people, its honors and dignities the sport
+and plunder of every knave and fool that can court or bribe the mob, the
+national debt repudiated, justice purchased in her temples as laws now
+are in the Legislature, the life and property of no man safe, the last
+relics of public virtue destroyed, anarchy will reign amid universal
+ruin. DANIEL DOUGHERTY.
+
+From "Address on the Perils of the Republic."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+To conclude "How are the mighty fallen!" Fallen before the desolating
+hand of death. Alas, the ruins of the tomb! The ruins of the tomb are an
+emblem of the ruins of the world; when not an individual, but a
+universe, already marred by sin and hastening to dissolution, shall
+agonize and die! Directing your thoughts from the one, fix them for a
+moment on the other. Anticipate the concluding scene, the final
+catastrophe of nature, when the sign of the Son of man shall he seen in
+heaven; when the Son of man Himself shall appear in the glory of his
+Father, and send forth judgment unto victory. The fiery desolation
+envelops towns, palaces, and fortresses; the heavens pass away! the
+earth melts! and all those magnificent productions of art which ages
+heaped on ages have reared up are in one awful day reduced to ashes.
+ELIPHALET NOTT.
+
+From the sermon "On the Death of Alexander Hamilton."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Westward the course of empire takes its way;
+ The four first acts already past,
+A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
+ Time's noblest offspring is the last."
+
+This extraordinary prophecy may be considered only as the result of long
+foresight and uncommon sagacity; of a foresight and sagacity stimulated,
+nevertheless, by excited feeling and high enthusiasm. So clear a vision
+of what America would become was not founded on square miles, or on
+existing numbers, or on any common laws of statistics. It was an
+intuitive glance into futurity; it was a grand conception, which they
+have hitherto so hopelessly mismanaged, you must expect to go on from
+had to worse; you must expect to lose the little prestige which you
+retain; you must expect to find in other portions of the world the
+results of the lower consideration that you occupy in the eyes of
+mankind; you must expect to be drawn, on, degree by degree, step by
+step, under the cover of plausible excuses, under the cover of highly
+philanthropic sentiments, to irreparable disasters, and to disgrace that
+it will be impossible to efface. LORD SALISBURY.
+
+From "Speech on the Abandonment of General Gordon."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+You will pardon me, gentlemen, if I say I think that we have need of a
+more rigorous scholastic rule; such an asceticism, I mean, as only the
+hardihood and devotion of the scholar himself can enforce. We live in
+the sun and on the surface--a thin, plausible, superficial existence,
+and talk of muse and prophet, of art and creation. But out of our
+shallow and frivolous way of life, how can greatness ever grow? Come
+now, let us go and be dumb. Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a
+long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum. Let us live in corners and do
+chores, and suffer, and weep, and drudge, with eyes and hearts that love
+the Lord. Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the
+grandeur and secret of our being, and so living bring up out of secular
+darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution. How mean to go
+blazing, a gaudy butterfly, in fashionable or political saloons, the
+fool of society, the fool of notoriety, a topic for newspapers, a piece
+of the street, and forfeiting the real prerogative of the russet coat,
+the privacy, and the true and warm heart of the citizen! EMERSON.
+
+From "Literary Ethics."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Sir, we are assembled to commemorate the establishment of great public
+principles of liberty, and to do honor to the distinguished dead. The
+occasion is too severe for eulogy to the living. But, sir, your
+interesting relation to this country, the peculiar circumstances which
+surround you and surround us, call on me to express the happiness which
+we derive from your presence and aid in this solemn commemoration.
+WEBSTER.
+
+From "Laying the Cornerstone of Bunker Hill Monument."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+All experience teaches that the requirements and impartial practise of
+the principles of civil and religious liberty can not speedily be
+acquired by the inhabitants, left to their own way, under a protectorate
+by this nation. The experience of this nation in governing and
+endeavoring to civilize the Indians teaches this. For about a century
+this nation exercised a protectorate over the tribes and allowed the
+natives of the country to manage their tribal and other relations in
+their own way. The advancement in civilization, was very slow and hardly
+perceptible. During the comparatively few years that Congress has by
+direct legislation controlled their relations to each other and to the
+reservations the advancement in civilization has been tenfold more
+rapid. This is in accord with all experience. The un-taught can not
+become acquainted with the difficult problems of government and of
+individual rights and their due enforcement without skilful guides.
+JONATHAN ROSS.
+
+From "The Nation's Relation to Its Island Possessions."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+My friend, will you hear me to-day? Hark! what is He saying to you?
+"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
+you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly
+in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy,
+and my burden is light." Will you not think well of such a Savior? Will
+you not believe in Him? Will you not trust in Him with all your heart
+and mind? Will you not live for Him? If He laid down His life for us, is
+it not the least we can do to lay down ours for Him? If He bore the
+cross and died on it for me, ought I not be willing to take it up for
+Him? Oh have we not reason to think well of Him? Do you think it is
+right and noble to lift up your voice against such, a Savior? Do you
+think it just to cry "Crucify Him! crucify Him!" Oh, may God help all of
+us to glorify the Father, by thinking well of His only-begotten Son.
+DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY.
+
+From "What Think Ye of Christ?"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Life has been often styled an ocean and our progress through it a
+voyage. The ocean is tempestuous and billowy, overspread by a cloudy
+sky, and fraught beneath with shelves and quick-sands. The voyage is
+eventful beyond comprehension, and at the same time full of uncertainty
+and replete with danger. Every adventurer needs to be well prepared for
+whatever may befall him, and well secured against the manifold hazards
+of losing his course, sinking in the abyss, or of being wrecked against
+the shore. TIMOTHY DWIGHT.
+
+From Sermon, "The Sovereignty of God."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+I shall endeavor to clear away from the question all that mass of
+dissertation and learning displayed in arguments which have been fetched
+from speculative men who have written upon the subject of government,
+or from ancient records, as being little to the purpose. I shall insist
+that these records are no proofs of our present constitution. A noble
+lord has taken up his argument from the settlement of the constitution
+at the revolution; I shall take up my argument from the constitution as
+it is now. MANSFIELD.
+
+From "The Right of England to Tax America."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The rays from this torch illuminate a century of unbroken friendship
+between France and the United States. Peace and its opportunities for
+material progress and the expansion of popular liberties send from here
+a fruitful and noble lesson to all the world. It will teach the people
+of all countries that in curbing the ambitions and dynastic purposes of
+princes and privileged classes, and in cultivating the brotherhood of
+man, lies the true road to their enfranchisement. The friendship of
+individuals, their unselfish devotion to each other, their willingness
+to die in each other's stead, are the most tender and touching of human
+records; they are the inspiration of youth and the solace of age; but
+nothing human is so beautiful and sublime as two great peoples of alien
+race and language. CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW.
+
+From "Oration at the Unveiling of the Bartholdi Statue."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+With consciences satisfied with the discharge of duty, no consequences
+can harm you. There is no evil that we can not either face or fly from,
+but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us
+ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the
+wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty
+performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or our
+misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the
+light our obligations are yet with us. We can not escape their power, nor
+fly from their presence. They are with us in this life, will be with us
+at its close; and in that scene of inconceivable solemnity, which lies
+yet further onward, we shall still find ourselves surrounded by the
+consciousness of duty, to pain us wherever it has been violated, and
+to console us so far as God may have given us grace to perform it.
+WEBSTER.
+
+From "The Trial of John Francis Knapp for the Murder of Captain Joseph
+White."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In the short space of time spanned by a single life, as if by "the touch
+of the enchanter's wand," the people have built a government before
+which the mightiest realms of the earth pale their splendors as do the
+stars of night before the refulgent glory of the coming day. Population
+has increased from three to thirty millions. Instead of thirteen,
+thirty-one stars now shine in the clear blue of this glorious flag. The
+multitudinous pursuits of enlightened life are cultivated to their
+highest pitch. The press is mighty and free. Peace and contentment smile
+alike around the poor man's hearth and the rich man's hall. Education
+scatters its priceless gift to every home in the land. Religion gathers
+around its altars the faithful of every creed. Statesmen have arisen
+"fit to govern all the world and rule it when 'tis wildest." Orators
+have appeared who have rivaled the great masters of antiquity. The doors
+of the American Parthenon are ever open to invite the humble but
+aspiring youth to enter and fill the loftiest niche. The highest dignity
+is within the grasp of all; for the lowly boy, born and reared in our
+own sweet valley of Cumberland, shall, when the spring comes round
+again, be clothed by the people with the first of mortal honors--that of
+guiding for a time the American republic upon her highway of glory.
+DANIEL DOUGHERTY.
+
+From "Oration on Democracy."
+
+
+
+
+
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