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 Seiten |
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... nature , and un- practised in the duties of civil administration , ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies . In this conflict of emotions , all I dare aver is , that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from ...
... nature , and un- practised in the duties of civil administration , ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies . In this conflict of emotions , all I dare aver is , that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from ...
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... nature , an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness - between duty and advantage - between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy , and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity . Since we ought to be ...
... nature , an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness - between duty and advantage - between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy , and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity . Since we ought to be ...
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... nature of their appointments , be defined by law ; and a competent fund designated for defraying the expences incident to the conduct of our foreign affairs . Various considerations also render it expedient , that the terms on which ...
... nature of their appointments , be defined by law ; and a competent fund designated for defraying the expences incident to the conduct of our foreign affairs . Various considerations also render it expedient , that the terms on which ...
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... nature of the terms ( considering the more than ordinary demand for borrowing , cre- ated by the situation of Europe ) give a reasonable hope , that the further execution of those powers may proceed with advantage and success . The se ...
... nature of the terms ( considering the more than ordinary demand for borrowing , cre- ated by the situation of Europe ) give a reasonable hope , that the further execution of those powers may proceed with advantage and success . The se ...
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... nature of the law . And I entertain a full confidence , that it will , in all , give way to motives which arise out of a just sense of duty , and a virtuous regard to the public wel- fare . If there are any circumstances in the law ...
... nature of the law . And I entertain a full confidence , that it will , in all , give way to motives which arise out of a just sense of duty , and a virtuous regard to the public wel- fare . If there are any circumstances in the law ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite v - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.