Addresses of the Successive Presidents to Both Houses of Congress, at the Opening of Each Session, with Their Answers: From the Commencement of the Present Government to January 1, 1805 : Together with the Inaugural Addresses During the Same Period, and the Farewell Address of George WashingtonSamuel Harrison Smith, 1805 - 228 páginas |
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... establishment of a fe- deral government , we esteem your acceptance of the office of President as one of the most propitious and important . În execution of the trust reposed in us , we shall endeavour to pursue that enlarged and ...
... establishment of a fe- deral government , we esteem your acceptance of the office of President as one of the most propitious and important . În execution of the trust reposed in us , we shall endeavour to pursue that enlarged and ...
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... establishment of the troops which may be deemed indispensable , will be entitled to mature consideration . In the arrangements which may be made respecting it , it will be of importance to con- ciliate the comfortable support of the ...
... establishment of the troops which may be deemed indispensable , will be entitled to mature consideration . In the arrangements which may be made respecting it , it will be of importance to con- ciliate the comfortable support of the ...
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... establishment of such troops as may be deemed indispensable , we shall with pleasure pro- vide for the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers , with a due regard to economy . We regret that the pacific measures adopted by ...
... establishment of such troops as may be deemed indispensable , we shall with pleasure pro- vide for the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers , with a due regard to economy . We regret that the pacific measures adopted by ...
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... establishment of the militia , of a mint , of standards of weights and measures , of the post office and post roads , are subjects which ( I presume ) you will resume of course , and which are abundantly urged by their own importance ...
... establishment of the militia , of a mint , of standards of weights and measures , of the post office and post roads , are subjects which ( I presume ) you will resume of course , and which are abundantly urged by their own importance ...
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... our deliberations . We shall renew our attention to the establishment of the militia and the other subjects unfinished at the last session , and shall proceed in them with all the dispatch , which the magnitude of all , and the ( 30 )
... our deliberations . We shall renew our attention to the establishment of the militia and the other subjects unfinished at the last session , and shall proceed in them with all the dispatch , which the magnitude of all , and the ( 30 )
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Página xxxi - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Página xviii - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.
Página vii - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your National capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Página xix - Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence therefore it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships, or enmities: Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.
Página xvi - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Página xvii - The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Página iv - In the discharge of this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government, the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Página v - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Página vi - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation...
Página xii - ... in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; 'but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.