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diff --git a/10639-h/10639-h.htm b/10639-h/10639-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..efe21c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/10639-h/10639-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1896 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= + "text/html; charset=UTF-8"> + <title> + The Project Gutenberg eBook of Phrases for Public Speakers , by Grenville Kleiser. + </title> + <style type="text/css"> + <!-- +body {margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%; background-color: white} + * { font-family: Georgia;} + P { margin-top: .75em; + text-align: justify; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { font-family: Verdana; text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; } +.phrases {margin-left: 25%; margin-right: 25%;} +.quotes {margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%;} + // --> + </style> + </head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10639 ***</div> + +<h1>Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study</h1> + +<h2>Compiled by Grenville Kleiser</h2> + +<h3>First printed in the United States of America in 1910</h3> + + +<br><br><hr style="width: 65%;"><br><br> +<a name="TO_THE_STUDENT"></a><h2>TO THE STUDENT</h2> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>GRENVILLE KLEISER</p> + + + + +<br><br><hr style="width: 65%;"><br><br> +<a name="CONTENTS"></a><h2>CONTENTS</h2> +<br> + +<p><a href="#USEFUL_PHRASES">USEFUL PHRASES</a></p> + +<p><a href="#PARAGRAPHS_FROM_NOTABLE_SPEECHES">PARAGRAPHS FROM NOTABLE SPEECHES</a></p> + + + + +<br><br><hr style="width: 65%;"><br><br> +<a name="USEFUL_PHRASES"></a><h2>USEFUL PHRASES</h2> +<div class="phrases"> +<p>A further objection to<br> +Again, can we doubt<br> +Again, we have abundant instances<br> +Alas! how often<br> +All experience evinces that<br> +All that I have been stating hitherto<br> +All that is quite true.<br> +All this, I know well enough<br> +All this is unnatural because<br> +All we do know is that<br> +Am I mistaken in this?<br> +Amid so much that is uncertain<br> +And, again, it is to be presumed that<br> +And, finally, have not these<br> +And, further, all that I have said<br> +And hence it continually happens<br> +And hence it is that<br> +And here, in passing, let us notice<br> +And here observe that +<br>And if I know anything of +<br>And if it is further asked why +<br>And I sometimes imagine that +<br>And I wish also to say that +<br>And, in fact, it is +<br>And it is certainly true +<br>And it may be admitted that +<br>And just here we touch the vital point in +<br>And let me here again refer to +<br>And now it begins to be apparent +<br>And now we are naturally brought on to +<br>And now we are told +<br>And pursuing the subject +<br>And so again in this day +<br>And so, in like manner +<br>And strange to say +<br>And such, I say, is +<br>And the same is true of +<br>And the whole point of these observations is +<br>And this is manifestly true +<br>Any thoughtful man can readily perceive +<br>As far as my experience goes +<br>As for me, I say +<br>As it were +<br>At first it does seem as tho +<br>At this very moment, there are +<br>At times we hear it said.</p> + +<p>Be it so. +<br>Be true to your own sense of right. +<br>Believe me, it is quite impossible for +<br>But all is not done. +<br>But bear in mind that +<br>But by no kind of calculation can we +<br>But do not tell me that +<br>But further still +<br>But here we take our stand. +<br>But I am not quite sure that +<br>But I digress. +<br>But I do not desire to obtrude a +<br>But I recollect that +<br>But I shall go still farther. +<br>But I submit whether it +<br>But I will not dwell on +<br>But I will not pause to point out +<br>But if you look seriously at facts +<br>But in any case +<br>But in fact there is no reason for +<br>But is it in truth so easy to +<br>But is it rationally conceivable that +<br>But it is fitting I should say +<br>But, it may be urged, if +<br>But lest it should still be argued that +<br>But let it be once understood that +<br>But let us suppose all these +<br>But look at the difference. +<br>But my idea of it is +<br>But now, I repeat, +<br>But now, lastly, let us suppose +<br>But now let us turn to +<br>But now, on the other hand, could +<br>But now some other things are to be noted +<br>But somehow all is changed! +<br>But the question for us is +<br>But to go still further +<br>But waiving this assumption +<br>But we dwell too long +<br>But we have faith that +<br>But what is the motive? +<br>But what then? +<br>But with us how changed! +<br>But why do we speak of +<br>But you may say truly +<br>But you must remember</p> + +<p>Can there be a better illustration than +<br>Can you doubt it? +<br>Certainly, I did not know +<br>Compare now the case of</p> + +<p>Did time admit I could show you +<br>Does anybody believe that +<br>Do you dream that +<br>Do not entertain so weak an imagination +<br>Do not misunderstand me.</p> + +<p>Enough has been said of +<br>Even apart from the vital question of +<br>Everybody has to say that</p> + +<p>Few people will dispute +<br>First, sir, permit me to observe +<br>For instance, +<br>For instance, there surely is +<br>For my part, I can say that I desire +<br>For the sake of clearness +<br>For this simple reason +<br>For what? +<br>Fortunately I am not obliged +<br>From time to time</p> + +<p>Happily for us +<br>Has the gentleman done? +<br>Have we any right to such a +<br>He can not do it. +<br>Heaven forbid! +<br>Hence, I repeat, it is +<br>Hence it is that +<br>Hence, too, it has often, been said +<br>Here I have to speak of +<br>Here I wish I could stop. +<br>Here it will be objected to me +<br>Here let me meet one other question +<br>History is replete with +<br>How are we to explain this +<br>How do you account for</p> + +<p>I acknowledge the force of +<br>I admire the indignation which +<br>I admit it. +<br>I admit, that if +<br>I allude to +<br>I am advised that already +<br>I am aware that +<br>I am distinctly maintaining +<br>I am expecting to hear next +<br>I am going to suggest +<br>I am in sympathy with +<br>I am justified in regarding +<br>I am led to make one remark +<br>I am mainly concerned with +<br>I am myself of opinion that +<br>I am naturally led on to speak of +<br>I am no friend to +<br>I am not arguing the +<br>I am not ashamed to acknowledge +<br>I am not complaining of +<br>I am not denying that +<br>I am not disposed to deny +<br>I am not going to attempt to +<br>I am not here to defend the +<br>I am not insensible of +<br>I am not justifying the +<br>I am not speaking of exceptions. +<br>I am not trying to absolve +<br>I am obliged to mention +<br>I am perfectly astounded at +<br>I am perfectly confident that +<br>I am perfectly indifferent concerning +<br>I am persuaded that +<br>I am quite certain that +<br>I am sanguine that those who +<br>I am speaking to-night for myself. +<br>I am sure, at least, that +<br>I am sure you will allow me +<br>I am sure you will do me the justice +<br>I am told that the reason +<br>I am well aware that +<br>I am willing to admit that +<br>I appeal to you on behalf of +<br>I ask how you are going to +<br>I ask myself +<br>I ask, then, as concerns the +<br>I ask your attention to this point. +<br>I assume that the argument for +<br>I assume, then, that +<br>I beg not to be interrupted here +<br>I beg respectfully to differ from +<br>I beg to assure you +<br>I believe I speak the sentiment of +<br>I believe in it as firmly as +<br>I believe in the +<br>I believe you feel, as I feel, that +<br>I can not believe it. +<br>I can not but feel that +<br>I can not do better than +<br>I can not even imagine why +<br>I can not, therefore, agree with +<br>I can not very well +<br>I can scarcely conceive anything +<br>I carry with me no hostile remembrance. +<br>I certainly do not recommend +<br>I come now to observe +<br>I come, then, to this +<br>I conclude that it was +<br>I confess I can not help agreeing with +<br>I confess my notions are +<br>I confess that I like to dwell on +<br>I confess truly +<br>I dare say +<br>I dare say to you +<br>I differ very much from +<br>I do not absolutely assert +<br>I do not believe that +<br>I do not blush to acknowledge +<br>I do not contend that +<br>I do not forget that +<br>I do not know on what pretense +<br>I do not mean to propose +<br>I do not mean to say +<br>I do not mistrust the future. +<br>I do not overlook tho fact that +<br>I do not pretend to believe +<br>I do not question this. +<br>I do not stand here before you +<br>I do not think it unfair reasoning to +<br>I do not vouch for +<br>I do not want to argue the question of +<br>I do not wish to be partial. +<br>I do not wish you to suppose that +<br>I do not yield to any one +<br>I entirely agree upon this point. +<br>I fear I only need refer to +<br>I firmly believe that +<br>I grant, of course, that +<br>I grant that there are +<br>I grant, too, of course, that +<br>I have all along been showing +<br>I have already alluded to +<br>I have already said, and I repeat it +<br>I have always argued that +<br>I have another objection to +<br>I have appealed to the testimony +<br>I have a right to think that +<br>I have been interested in hearing +<br>I have been requested to say a word, +<br>I have heard it said recently +<br>I have hitherto been adducing instances +<br>I have indicted +<br>I have listened with pleasure to +<br>I have never been able to understand +<br>I have never fancied that +<br>I have no confidence, then, in +<br>I have no desire in this instance +<br>I have no doubt that it is +<br>I have only to add that +<br>I have read of the +<br>I have said that +<br>I have so high a respect for +<br>I have spoken of +<br>I have the confident hope that +<br>I have the strongest reason for +<br>I have to appeal to you +<br>I heartily hope and trust +<br>I hope I have now made it clear that +<br>I hope you will acquit me of +<br>I insist that you do not +<br>I invite you to consider +<br>I know it is not uncommon for +<br>I know that there is a difference of +<br>I know that this will sound strange +<br>I know well the sentiments of +<br>I know whereof I speak. +<br>I leave it to you to say. +<br>I marvel that +<br>I may as well reply +<br>I may be told that +<br>I may say further that +<br>I may take it for granted +<br>I mention them merely +<br>I merely indicate +<br>I must beg leave to dwell a moment +<br>I must fairly tell you that +<br>I must now beg to ask +<br>I myself feel confident +<br>I often wonder +<br>I only wish to recognize +<br>I pass by that. +<br>I pass, then, from the question of +<br>I personally doubt whether it +<br>I plainly and positively state +<br>I point you to +<br>I proceed to inquire into +<br>I quote from +<br>I read but recently a story +<br>I really can not think it necessary to +<br>I recollect that +<br>I rejoice at the change that +<br>I remember once when +<br>I reply with confidence that +<br>I rest my opinion on +<br>I said just now +<br>I see no objection to +<br>I see no reason to doubt +<br>I shall ask you one question +<br>I shall attempt to show +<br>I shall content myself with asking +<br>I shall not suffer myself to +<br>I shall not undertake +<br>I shall presently show +<br>I shall sum up what has been said. +<br>I shall, then, merely sum up +<br>I share the conviction of +<br>I should hold myself obliged to +<br>I should not like to hold the opinion +<br>I speak in the most perfect honesty +<br>I speak only for myself. +<br>I suppose most men will recollect +<br>I take leave to say +<br>I take the liberty of +<br>I think I am right in saying +<br>I think I can demonstrate that +<br>I think it impossible that +<br>I think it our duty +<br>I think it well not to be disputed that +<br>I think, on the contrary, that +<br>I think that this is a great mistake. +<br>I think these facts show that +<br>I think we should be willing to +<br>I trust it will not he considered ungenerous +<br>I trust we are not the men to +<br>I turn now to another reason why +<br>I undertake to say +<br>I use the word advisedly. +<br>I venture to assert that +<br>I venture to say +<br>I venture to think +<br>I want to invite your attention to +<br>I want to know whether +<br>I was astonished to learn +<br>I was forcibly struck with one remark +<br>I was very much struck with +<br>I will allow more than this readily. +<br>I will answer, not by retort, but by +<br>I will call to mind this +<br>I will go no further +<br>I will not attempt to note the +<br>I will not enter into details +<br>I will not go into the evidence of +<br>I will not stop to inquire whether +<br>I will show you presently +<br>I will speak but a word or two more. +<br>I will suppose the objection urged +<br>I wish I could state +<br>I wish to call your attention to +<br>I wish to know +<br>I wish to say something about +<br>I wish to observe that +<br>I would not he understood as saying +<br>I would not, indeed, say a word to extenuate +<br>If any man were to tell me +<br>If any one is so short-sighted +<br>If I had my share +<br>If I hesitate, it is because +<br>If I insist on this point here +<br>If I mistake not the sentiment of +<br>If I must give an instance of this +<br>If I read the signs of the time aright +<br>If I were asked what it is that +<br>If other evidence be wanting +<br>If, perchance, one should say +<br>If such a thing were possible +<br>If such feelings were ever entertained +<br>If such is the fact, then +<br>If there is a man here +<br>If we accept at all the argument +<br>If we are conscious of +<br>If we find that +<br>If we resign ourselves to facts +<br>If you want to find out what +<br>If you wish the most conclusive proof +<br>In a broader and a larger sense +<br>In a sense, and a very real sense +<br>In answer to this singular theory +<br>In like manner +<br>In order to carry out +<br>In proof of this drift toward +<br>In proportion as +<br>In proportion, then, +<br>In pursuance of these clear and express +<br>In saying all this, I do not forget +<br>In something of a parallel +<br>In such cases +<br>In support of this claim +<br>In support of what I have been saying +<br>In the first place +<br>In the first place, then, I say +<br>In the first place there is +<br>In the last resort +<br>In the light of these things +<br>In this connection +<br>In this point of view, doubtless +<br>In this situation, let us +<br>In this respect they are +<br>In view of these facts, I say +<br>In what I have to say +<br>Is it fair to say that +<br>Is it not evident that +<br>Is it not quite possible that +<br>Is it said that +<br>Is not that the common sentiment? +<br>Is there any reason for +<br>It affords me unusual pleasure +<br>It is but too true that +<br>It can scarcely be imagined that +<br>It can not be too often repeated +<br>It certainly follows, then, +<br>It does not appear to me +<br>It has been maintained that +<br>It has been more than hinted that +<br>It has been said, and said truly, +<br>It has sometimes been remarked that +<br>It is a common observation that +<br>It is a curious fact that +<br>It is a fact patent to any one that +<br>It is a melancholy fact that +<br>It is a notorious fact that +<br>It is a thing commonly said that +<br>It is a very serious matter. +<br>It is a very serious question +<br>It is also to be borne in mind +<br>It is amazing that there are any among us +<br>It is an additional satisfaction +<br>It is an undeniable truth that +<br>It is apparent that +<br>It is certain that +<br>It is certainly not sufficient to say +<br>It is difficult to conceive that +<br>It is exceedingly unlikely that +<br>It is historically certain that +<br>It is in effect the reply of +<br>It is in quite another kind, however, +<br>It is, indeed, commonly said +<br>It is more difficult to +<br>It is necessary to account for +<br>It is no more than fitting that +<br>It is not a good thing to see +<br>It is not a wise thing to +<br>It is not alleged +<br>It is not chiefly, however, +<br>It is not for me here to recall +<br>It is not, however, +<br>It is not long since I had occasion +<br>It is not my purpose to discuss +<br>It is not necessary that I define +<br>It is not proposed to +<br>It is not surprizing that +<br>It is not to be denied that +<br>It is not told traditionally +<br>It is not true that +<br>It is not wonderful that +<br>It is observable enough +<br>It is of little consequence +<br>It is of importance that +<br>It is of very little importance what +<br>It is quite true that +<br>It is related of +<br>It is singular that +<br>It is the most extraordinary thing that +<br>It is to my mind a +<br>It is true, indeed, that +<br>It is well known that +<br>It is well that we clearly apprehend +<br>It is wholly unnecessary +<br>It is worthy of remark +<br>It looks to me to be +<br>It may be a matter of doubt +<br>It may be shown that +<br>It may be suggested that +<br>It may be supposed that +<br>It may in a measure be true that +<br>It may not be improper for me to suggest +<br>It must be borne in mind that +<br>It must be confest that +<br>It must be recollected that +<br>It need hardly be said that +<br>It remains for us to consider +<br>It remains to +<br>It remains to be shown that +<br>It reminds me of an anecdote +<br>It seems a truism to say +<br>It seems now to be generally admitted +<br>It should also be remembered that +<br>It should be remembered +<br>It so happens that +<br>It was my good fortune +<br>It was not so +<br>It was under these circumstances +<br>It were foolish to talk of +<br>It were rash to say +<br>It will be easy to cite +<br>It will be found, in the second place, +<br>It will be observed also that +<br>It will be well to recall +<br>It will not surely be objected +<br>It would be misleading to say +<br>It would be no less impracticable to +<br>It would be vain to seek +<br>It would do no good to repeat +<br>It would seem that</p> + +<p>Largely, I have no doubt, it is due +<br>Let it be repeated +<br>Let it be for an instant supposed +<br>Let me add that +<br>Let me ask who there is among us +<br>Let me explain myself by saying +<br>Let me illustrate +<br>Let me instance in one thing only +<br>Let me put the subject before you +<br>Let me say one word further. +<br>Let me tell you +<br>Let me tell you a very interesting story +<br>Let no one suppose that +<br>Let the truth be said outright +<br>Let these instances suffice +<br>Let us bear in mind that +<br>Let us consider that +<br>Let us go a step further. +<br>Let us say frankly +<br>Let us see whether +<br>Let us stand together. +<br>Let us look a little at +<br>Let us take an example in +<br>Let us take, first of all,</p> + +<p>Make no mistake. +<br>Men are often doubtful about +<br>Moreover, I am sure, +<br>Moreover, I believe that +<br>Much has been said of late about +<br>My antagonism is only aroused when +<br>My answer is, that +<br>My belief is that +<br>My own opinion is</p> + +<p>Nay, further than this, +<br>Need I speak of +<br>Neither is it true that +<br>Nevertheless, we must admit +<br>Next I give you the opinion of +<br>Next I observe that +<br>No man who listens to me underrates +<br>No matter what +<br>No, no. +<br>No objection can be brought against the +<br>No one realizes this more +<br>No one will, with justice, say +<br>No one will question +<br>No one would take the pains to challenge the +<br>No wonder, then, that +<br>Nobody really doubts that +<br>Nor am I, believe me, so arrogant as +<br>Nor can we imagine that +<br>Nor is this surprizing +<br>Nor, lastly, does this +<br>Not a few persons demand +<br>Not many words are required to show +<br>Not quite so. +<br>Not so here. +<br>Nothing is more certain than +<br>Nothing less. +<br>Now, after what I have said, +<br>Now apply this to +<br>Now do you observe what follows from +<br>Now for one moment let us +<br>Now I have done. +<br>Now, I proceed to examine +<br>Now I want to ask whether +<br>Now it is evident +<br>Now let us observe what +<br>Now, mark it. +<br>Now, on the other hand, let me +<br>Now perhaps you will ask me +<br>Now we come to the question</p> + +<p>Observe, if you please, that +<br>Occasionally it is whispered that +<br>Of course, it will be said that +<br>Of no less import is +<br>Of the final issue I have no doubt. +<br>On the contrary +<br>On the one hand +<br>On the other hand +<br>On the other hand, you will see +<br>On the whole, then, I observe +<br>One word more and I have done. +<br>Once more, how else could +<br>One fact is clear +<br>Only a few days ago +<br>Our position is that +<br>Our position is unquestionable. +<br>Over and over again it has been shown that</p> + +<p>Perhaps, sir, I am mistaken in +<br>Perhaps the reason of this may be +<br>Permit me to add another circumstance +<br>Permit me to remind you +<br>Please remember that if</p> + +<p>Readily we admit that</p> + +<p>Since you have suffered me to +<br>So far is clear, but +<br>So it came naturally about +<br>So much for +<br>Some men think, indeed, that +<br>Some persons have exprest surprize that +<br>Something of extravagance there may be in +<br>Strange as it may seem +<br>Strictly speaking, it is not +<br>Such an avowal is not +<br>Such is not my theory. +<br>Such is steadfastly my opinion that +<br>Such is the truth. +<br>Such, then, is the answer whir I make to +<br>Supposing, for instance, +<br>Surely I do not misinterpret the spirit +<br>Surely it is preposterous +<br>Surely, then, +<br>Surely, this is good and clear reasoning.</p> + +<p>Take, again, the case of +<br>Take the instance of +<br>That is quite obvious. +<br>That we might have done. +<br>The audacity of the statement is +<br>The charge is false. +<br>The conclusion is irresistible. +<br>The contempt that is cast +<br>The fact is substantially true. +<br>The fact, is that there is not +<br>The fact need not be concealed that +<br>The facts are before us all +<br>The first point to be ascertained is +<br>The language is perfectly plain. +<br>The least desirable form of +<br>The more I consider this question +<br>The plea serves well with +<br>The point I wish to bring out +<br>The problem that presents itself is +<br>The question at issue is primarily +<br>The question is not +<br>The question presented is +<br>The question with me is +<br>The substance of all this is +<br>The time is not far distant when +<br>The time is short. +<br>The truth of this has not been +<br>Then, finally, +<br>Then, I repeat, +<br>There are many people nowadays who +<br>There are people who tell you that +<br>There is a cynicism which +<br>There is a word which I wish to say +<br>There is another reason why +<br>There is another sense in which. +<br>There is much force in +<br>There is no danger of our overrating the +<br>There is no evidence that +<br>There is no good reason why +<br>There is no mistaking the fact +<br>There is no other intelligible answer +<br>There is no parallel to +<br>There is no sufficient reason for +<br>There is none other. +<br>There is not a shadow of +<br>There is one other point connected with +<br>There is one other point to which +<br>There is something suggestive in +<br>There was a time when none denied it. +<br>These absurd pretensions +<br>They did what they could. +<br>This being the case, you will see +<br>This brings me to a point on which +<br>This does not mean +<br>This expectation was disappointed. +<br>This I have already shown +<br>This is a great mistake. +<br>This is it's last resort. +<br>This is the only remaining alternative. +<br>This leads me to the question +<br>This relieves me of the necessity of +<br>This is clearly perceived by +<br>This is especially true of +<br>This is essentially a question of +<br>This is very different from +<br>Tho all this is obvious +<br>Thus, you see +<br>To avoid all possibility of being +<br>To be sure +<br>To-day I have additional satisfaction in +<br>To my own mind, +<br>To my own mind, certainly, it is +<br>To pass from that I notice +<br>To take a very different instance +<br>To this end we must +<br>To this, likewise, it may be added +<br>To this there can be but one answer. +<br>To show all this is easy and certain. +<br>To show this in fact +<br>To sum up, then +<br>Truly, gentlemen</p> + +<p>Unless I am wholly wrong +<br>Unless I greatly mistake the temper</p> + +<p>We all remember +<br>We are all aware that +<br>We are here to discuss +<br>We are now able to determine +<br>We are told that +<br>We can not leave unchallenged the +<br>We deny it. +<br>We have an instance in +<br>We have no right to say +<br>We, in our turn, must +<br>We know they will not +<br>We laugh to scorn the idea +<br>We look around us +<br>We may have an overpowering sense of +<br>We may rest assured that +<br>We must not propose in +<br>We often speak of +<br>We ought, first of all, to note +<br>We should pause to consider +<br>We will hear much in these days +<br>We will not examine the proof of +<br>What are you asked to do? +<br>What are you going to do? +<br>What can be more intelligible than +<br>What do you say to +<br>What do we understand by +<br>What has become of it? +<br>What is more remarkable still +<br>What is the answer to all this? +<br>What is this but an acknowledgment of +<br>What is your opinion? +<br>What then remains? +<br>What we do say is +<br>When all has been said, there remains +<br>When I look around me +<br>When it can be shown that +<br>When it is recognized that +<br>When that is said, all is said +<br>When we contemplate the +<br>When we reflect on these sentiments +<br>Where there is prejudice, it is no use to argue. +<br>Who finds fault with these things? +<br>Why should an argument be required to prove that +<br>Why should it be necessary to confirm +<br>Will you tell me how +<br>With possibly a single exception +<br>With regard to what has been stated</p> + +<p>Yet it is plain +<br>Yet, strange to say, +<br>You and I may hold that +<br>You can not assert that +<br>You can not invent a series of argument +<br>You can not say that +<br>You do not pretend that +<br>You have the authority of +<br>You know as well as I do +<br>You may object at once, and say +<br>You may object that +<br>You may point, if you will, to +<br>You may search the history of +<br>You tell me that +<br>You will say that</p> +</div> +<hr style="width: 80%;"> +<a name="PARAGRAPHS_FROM_NOTABLE_SPEECHES"></a><h2>PARAGRAPHS FROM NOTABLE SPEECHES</h2> + +<p>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. <br>THOMAS LORD ERSKINE.</p> + +<p><i>From "Speech in Behalf of Stockdale."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>WAYNE MACVEAGH.</p> + +<p><i>From "Ideals in American Politics</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN.</p> + +<p><i>From "Self-government in Louisiana</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>JAMES +ABRAM GARFIELD.</p> + +<p><i>From "Inaugural Address."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>GEORGE JOACHIM GOSCHEN.</p> + +<p><i>From "On the Cultivation of the Imagination."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>JOHN WILLIAM DAWSON.</p> + +<p><i>From "On the Higher Education of Women."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>THOMAS LORD ERSKINE</p> + +<p><i>From "Speech in Behalf of Blockdale."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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? <br>GOUVERNEUR MORRIS.</p> + +<p><i>From "Speech on the Judiciary."</i></p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;"> +<p>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. +<br>JAMES WILSON.</p> + +<p><i>From "Vindication of the Colonies."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>CHARLES JAMES FOX.</p> + +<p><i>From "On the Rejection of Bonaparte's Overtures</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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! <br>RUFUS CHOATE.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Necessity of Compromises in American Politics."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>THOMAS STARR KING.</p> + +<p><i>From "On the Privilege and Duties of Patriotism."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND.</p> + +<p><i>From "Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>THOMAS STARR KING.</p> + +<p><i>From "On the Privilege and Duties of Patriotism."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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:</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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." <br>GEORGE +FRISBIE HOAR.</p> + +<p><i>From "Address at the Banquet of the New England Society."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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 <i>Mayflower</i> 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. <br>JOSEPH +HODGES CHOATE.</p> + +<p><i>From "Oration on Rufus Choate."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>STEPHEN +JOSEPH MEANY.</p> + +<p><i>From "Legality of Arrest."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Duty of the American Scholar</i>."</p> + + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>IGNATIUS +DONNELLY.</p> + +<p><i>From "Reconstruction</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>GEORGE WHITEFIELD.</p> + +<p><i>From Sermon, "On the Method of Grace."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>LORD CHATHAM.</p> +<p><i>From "On Removing Troops from Boston."</i></p> +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> +<p> 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. <br>JAMES +PROCTOR KNOTT.</p> + +<p><i>From Speech on "Duluth."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.</p> + +<p><i>From "Eulogy of Wendell Phillips</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>HENRY PARRY LIDDON.</p> + +<p><i>From Sermon, "The Adequacy of Present Opportunities."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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! <br>RUFUS CHOATE.</p> + +<p><i>From "Oration on American Nationality</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.</p> + +<p><i>From "For Self-respect and Self-protection</i>." </p> +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> +<p>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. <br>LORD CHATHAM.</p> + +<p><i>From "Second Speech on Sir Robert Walpole."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>LORD CHATHAM.</p> + +<p><i>From "Speech On the State of the Nation."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>JOHN WILLIAM +DAWSON.</p> + +<p><i>From "On the Progress of Science in Canada."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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! <br>BENJAMIN +HARVEY HILL.</p> + +<p><i>From "On the Perils of the Nation</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>LORD CHATHAM.</p> + +<p><i>From "Speech on Sir Robert Walpole</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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! <br>DANIEL WEBSTER.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Character of Washington."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>GEORGE WHITEFIELD.</p> + +<p><i>From "On the Method of Grace."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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? <br>BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER.</p> + +<p><i>From "Character and Results of War."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>LORD CHATHAM.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Attempt to Subjugate America</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Day We Celebrate</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>DANIEL WEBSTER.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Character of Washington</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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! <br>ROBERT EMMET.</p> + +<p><i>From "Speech when under Sentence of Death</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>SAMUEL ADAMS.</p> + +<p><i>From "American Independence</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>FREDERICK DOUGLASS.</p> + +<p><i>From "Inauguration of the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham +Lincoln</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>LORD MANSFIELD.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Right of England to Tax America</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>JOSEPH STORY.</p> + +<p><i>From "Characteristics of the Age."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN.</p> + +<p><i>From "On Liberal Aims."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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, +<br>SAMUEL JONES TILDEN.</p> + +<p><i>From "Address on Administrative Reform."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>FREDERICK DOUGLASS.</p> + +<p><i>From "Inauguration of the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham +Lincoln."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.</p> + +<p><i>"From Words of Encouragement to the Opprest."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>MAXIMILIEN MARIE ISIDORE ROBESPIERRE.</p> + +<p><i>From "Against Capital Punishment</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>GIUSEPPE MAZZINI.</p> + +<p><i>From "To the Young Men of Italy."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>DANIEL DOUGHERTY.</p> + +<p><i>From "Address on the Perils of the Republic."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>ELIPHALET NOTT.</p> + +<p><i>From the sermon "On the Death of Alexander Hamilton</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> +<div align="center"> +"Westward the course of empire takes its way;<br> +The four first acts already past,<br> +A fifth shall close the drama with the day:<br> +Time's noblest offspring is the last."<br> +</div> +<p>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. <br>LORD SALISBURY.</p> + +<p><i>From "Speech on the Abandonment of General Gordon."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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! <br>EMERSON.</p> + +<p><i>From "Literary Ethics."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>WEBSTER.</p> + +<p><i>From "Laying the Cornerstone of Bunker Hill Monument."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>JONATHAN ROSS.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Nation's Relation to Its Island Possessions</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY.</p> + +<p><i>From "What Think Ye of Christ?"</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>TIMOTHY DWIGHT.</p> + +<p><i>From Sermon, "The Sovereignty of God."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>MANSFIELD.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Right of England to Tax America."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. <br>CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW.</p> + +<p><i>From "Oration at the Unveiling of the Bartholdi Statue."</i></p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> +<p>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. <br>WEBSTER.</p> + +<p><i>From "The Trial of John Francis Knapp for the Murder of Captain Joseph +White</i>."</p> + +<br><hr style="width: 45%;"><br> + +<p>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. +<br>DANIEL DOUGHERTY.</p> + +<p><i>From "Oration on Democracy."</i></p> +<br> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10639 ***</div> +</body> +</html> + + + |