,,phrases ,,for ,,public ,,speakers ,,and ,,paragraphs ,,for ,,study ,compiled by ,grenville ,kleiser #aiaj ,,to ,,the ,,student ,the experienced public speaker acquires through long practise hundreds of phrases which he uses over and over again4 ,these are essential to readiness of speech1 since they serve to hold his thought well together and enable him to speak fluently even upon short notice4 ,this book is one of practise1 not theory4 ,the student should read aloud daily several pages of these phrases1 think just what each one means1 and whenever possible till out the phrase in his own words4 ,a month's earnest practise of this kind will yield astonishing results4 ,he should also study the paragraphs1 reprinted here from notable speeches1 and closely observe the use made of climax and other effects4 ,the phrase and the paragraph are the principal elements in the public speaker's ,english style1 and the student will be amply repaid for any time he devotes to their analysis4 ,,grenville ,,kleiser ,,contents ,,useful ,,phrases ,,paragraphs ,,from ,,notable ,,speeches ,,useful ,,phrases ,a further objection to ,again1 can we doubt ,again1 we have abundant instances ,alas6 how often ,all experience evinces that ,all that ,i have been stating hitherto ,all that is quite true4 ,all this1 ,i know well enough ,all this is unnatural because ,all we do know is that ,am ,i mistaken in this8 ,amid so much that is uncertain ,and1 again1 it is to be presumed that ,and1 finally1 have not these ,and1 further1 all that ,i have said ,and hence it continually happens ,and hence it is that ,and here1 in passing1 let us notice ,and here observe that ,and if ,i know anything of ,and if it is further asked why ,and ,i sometimes imagine that ,and ,i wish also to say that ,and1 in fact1 it is ,and it is certainly true ,and it may be admitted that ,and just here we touch the vital point in ,and let me here again refer to ,and now it begins to be apparent ,and now we are naturally brought on to ,and now we are told ,and pursuing the subject ,and so again in this day ,and so1 in like manner ,and strange to say ,and such1 ,i say1 is ,and the same is true of ,and the whole point of these observations is ,and this is manifestly true ,any thoughtful man can readily perceive ,as far as my experience goes ,as for me1 ,i say ,as it were ,at first it does seem as tho ,at this very moment1 there are ,at times we hear it said4 ,be it so4 ,be true to your own sense of right4 ,believe me1 it is quite impossible for ,but all is not done4 ,but bear in mind that ,but by no kind of calculation can we ,but do not tell me that ,but further still ,but here we take our stand4 ,but ,i am not quite sure that ,but ,i digress4 ,but ,i do not desire to obtrude a ,but ,i recollect that ,but ,i shall go still farther4 ,but ,i submit whether it ,but ,i will not dwell on ,but ,i will not pause to point out ,but if you look seriously at facts ,but in any case ,but in fact there is no reason for ,but is it in truth so easy to ,but is it rationally conceivable that ,but it is fitting ,i should say ,but1 it may be urged1 if ,but lest it should still be argued that ,but let it be once understood that ,but let us suppose all these ,but look at the difference4 ,but my idea of it is ,but now1 ,i repeat1 ,but now1 lastly1 let us suppose ,but now let us turn to ,but now1 on the other hand1 could ,but now some other things are to be noted ,but somehow all is changed6 ,but the question for us is ,but to go still further ,but waiving this assumption ,but we dwell too long ,but we have faith that ,but what is the motive8 ,but what then8 ,but with us how changed6 ,but why do we speak of ,but you may say truly ,but you must remember ,can there be a better illustration than ,can you doubt it8 ,certainly1 ,i did not know ,compare now the case of ,did time admit ,i could show you ,does anybody believe that ,do you dream that ,do not entertain so weak an imagination ,do not misunderstand me4 ,enough has been said of ,even apart from the vital question of ,everybody has to say that ,few people will dispute ,first1 sir1 permit me to observe ,for instance1 ,for instance1 there surely is ,for my part1 ,i can say that ,i desire ,for the sake of clearness ,for this simple reason ,for what8 ,fortunately ,i am not obliged ,from time to time ,happily for us ,has the gentleman done8 ,have we any right to such a ,he can not do it4 ,heaven forbid6 ,hence1 ,i repeat1 it is ,hence it is that ,hence1 too1 it has often1 been said ,here ,i have to speak of ,here ,i wish ,i could stop4 ,here it will be objected to me ,here let me meet one other question ,history is replete with ,how are we to explain this ,how do you account for ,i acknowledge the force of ,i admire the indignation which ,i admit it4 ,i admit1 that if ,i allude to ,i am advised that already ,i am aware that ,i am distinctly maintaining ,i am expecting to hear next ,i am going to suggest ,i am in sympathy with ,i am justified in regarding ,i am led to make one remark ,i am mainly concerned with ,i am myself of opinion that ,i am naturally led on to speak of ,i am no friend to ,i am not arguing the ,i am not ashamed to acknowledge ,i am not complaining of ,i am not denying that ,i am not disposed to deny ,i am not going to attempt to ,i am not here to defend the ,i am not insensible of ,i am not justifying the ,i am not speaking of exceptions4 ,i am not trying to absolve ,i am obliged to mention ,i am perfectly astounded at ,i am perfectly confident that ,i am perfectly indifferent concerning ,i am persuaded that ,i am quite certain that ,i am sanguine that those who ,i am speaking to-night for myself4 ,i am sure1 at least1 that ,i am sure you will allow me ,i am sure you will do me the justice ,i am told that the reason ,i am well aware that ,i am willing to admit that ,i appeal to you on behalf of ,i ask how you are going to ,i ask myself ,i ask1 then1 as concerns the ,i ask your attention to this point4 ,i assume that the argument for ,i assume1 then1 that ,i beg not to be interrupted here ,i beg respectfully to differ from ,i beg to assure you ,i believe ,i speak the sentiment of ,i believe in it as firmly as ,i believe in the ,i believe you feel1 as ,i feel1 that ,i can not believe it4 ,i can not but feel that ,i can not do better than ,i can not even imagine why ,i can not1 therefore1 agree with ,i can not very well ,i can scarcely conceive anything ,i carry with me no hostile remembrance4 ,i certainly do not recommend ,i come now to observe ,i come1 then1 to this ,i conclude that it was ,i confess ,i can not help agreeing with ,i confess my notions are ,i confess that ,i like to dwell on ,i confess truly ,i dare say ,i dare say to you ,i differ very much from ,i do not absolutely assert ,i do not believe that ,i do not blush to acknowledge ,i do not contend that ,i do not forget that ,i do not know on what pretense ,i do not mean to propose ,i do not mean to say ,i do not mistrust the future4 ,i do not overlook tho fact that ,i do not pretend to believe ,i do not question this4 ,i do not stand here before you ,i do not think it unfair reasoning to ,i do not vouch for ,i do not want to argue the question of ,i do not wish to be partial4 ,i do not wish you to suppose that ,i do not yield to any one ,i entirely agree upon this point4 ,i fear ,i only need refer to ,i firmly believe that ,i grant1 of course1 that ,i grant that there are ,i grant1 too1 of course1 that ,i have all along been showing ,i have already alluded to ,i have already said1 and ,i repeat it ,i have always argued that ,i have another objection to ,i have appealed to the testimony ,i have a right to think that ,i have been interested in hearing ,i have been requested to say a word1 ,i have heard it said recently ,i have hitherto been adducing instances ,i have indicted ,i have listened with pleasure to ,i have never been able to understand ,i have never fancied that ,i have no confidence1 then1 in ,i have no desire in this instance ,i have no doubt that it is ,i have only to add that ,i have read of the ,i have said that ,i have so high a respect for ,i have spoken of ,i have the confident hope that ,i have the strongest reason for ,i have to appeal to you ,i heartily hope and trust ,i hope ,i have now made it clear that ,i hope you will acquit me of ,i insist that you do not ,i invite you to consider ,i know it is not uncommon for ,i know that there is a difference of ,i know that this will sound strange ,i know well the sentiments of ,i know whereof ,i speak4 ,i leave it to you to say4 ,i marvel that ,i may as well reply ,i may be told that ,i may say further that ,i may take it for granted ,i mention them merely ,i merely indicate ,i must beg leave to dwell a moment ,i must fairly tell you that ,i must now beg to ask ,i myself feel confident ,i often wonder ,i only wish to recognize ,i pass by that4 ,i pass1 then1 from the question of ,i personally doubt whether it ,i plainly and positively state ,i point you to ,i proceed to inquire into ,i quote from ,i read but recently a story ,i really can not think it necessary to ,i recollect that ,i rejoice at the change that ,i remember once when ,i reply with confidence that ,i rest my opinion on ,i said just now ,i see no objection to ,i see no reason to doubt ,i shall ask you one question ,i shall attempt to show ,i shall content myself with asking ,i shall not suffer myself to ,i shall not undertake ,i shall presently show ,i shall sum up what has been said4 ,i shall1 then1 merely sum up ,i share the conviction of ,i should hold myself obliged to ,i should not like to hold the opinion ,i speak in the most perfect honesty ,i speak only for myself4 ,i suppose most men will recollect ,i take leave to say ,i take the liberty of ,i think ,i am right in saying ,i think ,i can demonstrate that ,i think it impossible that ,i think it our duty ,i think it well not to be disputed that ,i think1 on the contrary1 that ,i think that this is a great mistake4 ,i think these facts show that ,i think we should be willing to ,i trust it will not he considered ungenerous ,i trust we are not the men to ,i turn now to another reason why ,i undertake to say ,i use the word advisedly4 ,i venture to assert that ,i venture to say ,i venture to think ,i want to invite your attention to ,i want to know whether ,i was astonished to learn ,i was forcibly struck with one remark ,i was very much struck with ,i will allow more than this readily4 ,i will answer1 not by retort1 but by ,i will call to mind this ,i will go no further ,i will not attempt to note the ,i will not enter into details ,i will not go into the evidence of ,i will not stop to inquire whether ,i will show you presently ,i will speak but a word or two more4 ,i will suppose the objection urged ,i wish ,i could state ,i wish to call your attention to ,i wish to know ,i wish to say something about ,i wish to observe that ,i would not he understood as saying ,i would not1 indeed1 say a word to extenuate ,if any man were to tell me ,if any one is so short-sighted ,if ,i had my share ,if ,i hesitate1 it is because ,if ,i insist on this point here ,if ,i mistake not the sentiment of ,if ,i must give an instance of this ,if ,i read the signs of the time aright ,if ,i were asked what it is that ,if other evidence be wanting ,if1 perchance1 one should say ,if such a thing were possible ,if such feelings were ever entertained ,if such is the fact1 then ,if there is a man here ,if we accept at all the argument ,if we are conscious of ,if we find that ,if we resign ourselves to facts ,if you want to find out what ,if you wish the most conclusive proof ,in a broader and a larger sense ,in a sense1 and a very real sense ,in answer to this singular theory ,in like manner ,in order to carry out ,in proof of this drift toward ,in proportion as ,in proportion1 then1 ,in pursuance of these clear and express ,in saying all this1 ,i do not forget ,in something of a parallel ,in such cases ,in support of this claim ,in support of what ,i have been saying ,in the first place ,in the first place1 then1 ,i say ,in the first place there is ,in the last resort ,in the light of these things ,in this connection ,in this point of view1 doubtless ,in this situation1 let us ,in this respect they are ,in view of these facts1 ,i say ,in what ,i have to say ,is it fair to say that ,is it not evident that ,is it not quite possible that ,is it said that ,is not that the common sentiment8 ,is there any reason for ,it affords me unusual pleasure ,it is but too true that ,it can scarcely be imagined that ,it can not be too often repeated ,it certainly follows1 then1 ,it does not appear to me ,it has been maintained that ,it has been more than hinted that ,it has been said1 and said truly1 ,it has sometimes been remarked that ,it is a common observation that ,it is a curious fact that ,it is a fact patent to any one that ,it is a melancholy fact that ,it is a notorious fact that ,it is a thing commonly said that ,it is a very serious matter4 ,it is a very serious question ,it is also to be borne in mind ,it is amazing that there are any among us ,it is an additional satisfaction ,it is an undeniable truth that ,it is apparent that ,it is certain that ,it is certainly not sufficient to say ,it is difficult to conceive that ,it is exceedingly unlikely that ,it is historically certain that ,it is in effect the reply of ,it is in quite another kind1 however1 ,it is1 indeed1 commonly said ,it is more difficult to ,it is necessary to account for ,it is no more than fitting that ,it is not a good thing to see ,it is not a wise thing to ,it is not alleged ,it is not chiefly1 however1 ,it is not for me here to recall ,it is not1 however1 ,it is not long since ,i had occasion ,it is not my purpose to discuss ,it is not necessary that ,i define ,it is not proposed to ,it is not surprizing that ,it is not to be denied that ,it is not told traditionally ,it is not true that ,it is not wonderful that ,it is observable enough ,it is of little consequence ,it is of importance that ,it is of very little importance what ,it is quite true that ,it is related of ,it is singular that ,it is the most extraordinary thing that ,it is to my mind a ,it is true1 indeed1 that ,it is well known that ,it is well that we clearly apprehend ,it is wholly unnecessary ,it is worthy of remark ,it looks to me to be ,it may be a matter of doubt ,it may be shown that ,it may be suggested that ,it may be supposed that ,it may in a measure be true that ,it may not be improper for me to suggest ,it must be borne in mind that ,it must be confest that ,it must be recollected that ,it need hardly be said that ,it remains for us to consider ,it remains to ,it remains to be shown that ,it reminds me of an anecdote ,it seems a truism to say ,it seems now to be generally admitted ,it should also be remembered that ,it should be remembered ,it so happens that ,it was my good fortune ,it was not so ,it was under these circumstances ,it were foolish to talk of ,it were rash to say ,it will be easy to cite ,it will be found1 in the second place1 ,it will be observed also that ,it will be well to recall ,it will not surely be objected ,it would be misleading to say ,it would be no less impracticable to ,it would be vain to seek ,it would do no good to repeat ,it would seem that ,largely1 ,i have no doubt1 it is due ,let it be repeated ,let it be for an instant supposed ,let me add that ,let me ask who there is among us ,let me explain myself by saying ,let me illustrate ,let me instance in one thing only ,let me put the subject before you ,let me say one word further4 ,let me tell you ,let me tell you a very interesting story ,let no one suppose that ,let the truth be said outright ,let these instances suffice ,let us bear in mind that ,let us consider that ,let us go a step further4 ,let us say frankly ,let us see whether ,let us stand together4 ,let us look a little at ,let us take an example in ,let us take1 first of all1 ,make no mistake4 ,men are often doubtful about ,moreover1 ,i am sure1 ,moreover1 ,i believe that ,much has been said of late about ,my antagonism is only aroused when ,my answer is1 that ,my belief is that ,my own opinion is ,nay1 further than this1 ,need ,i speak of ,neither is it true that ,nevertheless1 we must admit ,next ,i give you the opinion of ,next ,i observe that ,no man who listens to me underrates ,no matter what ,no1 no4 ,no objection can be brought against the ,no one realizes this more ,no one will1 with justice1 say ,no one will question ,no one would take the pains to challenge the ,no wonder1 then1 that ,nobody really doubts that ,nor am ,i1 believe me1 so arrogant as ,nor can we imagine that ,nor is this surprizing ,nor1 lastly1 does this ,not a few persons demand ,not many words are required to show ,not quite so4 ,not so here4 ,nothing is more certain than ,nothing less4 ,now1 after what ,i have said1 ,now apply this to ,now do you observe what follows from ,now for one moment let us ,now ,i have done4 ,now1 ,i proceed to examine ,now ,i want to ask whether ,now it is evident ,now let us observe what ,now1 mark it4 ,now1 on the other hand1 let me ,now perhaps you will ask me ,now we come to the question ,observe1 if you please1 that ,occasionally it is whispered that ,of course1 it will be said that ,of no less import is ,of the final issue ,i have no doubt4 ,on the contrary ,on the one hand ,on the other hand ,on the other hand1 you will see ,on the whole1 then1 ,i observe ,one word more and ,i have done4 ,once more1 how else could ,one fact is clear ,only a few days ago ,our position is that ,our position is unquestionable4 ,over and over again it has been shown that ,perhaps1 sir1 ,i am mistaken in ,perhaps the reason of this may be ,permit me to add another circumstance ,permit me to remind you ,please remember that if ,readily we admit that ,since you have suffered me to ,so far is clear1 but ,so it came naturally about ,so much for ,some men think1 indeed1 that ,some persons have exprest surprize that ,something of extravagance there may be in ,strange as it may seem ,strictly speaking1 it is not ,such an avowal is not ,such is not my theory4 ,such is steadfastly my opinion that ,such is the truth4 ,such1 then1 is the answer whir ,i make to ,supposing1 for instance1 ,surely ,i do not misinterpret the spirit ,surely it is preposterous ,surely1 then1 ,surely1 this is good and clear reasoning4 ,take1 again1 the case of ,take the instance of ,that is quite obvious4 ,that we might have done4 ,the audacity of the statement is ,the charge is false4 ,the conclusion is irresistible4 ,the contempt that is cast ,the fact is substantially true4 ,the fact1 is that there is not ,the fact need not be concealed that ,the facts are before us all ,the first point to be ascertained is ,the language is perfectly plain4 ,the least desirable form of ,the more ,i consider this question ,the plea serves well with ,the point ,i wish to bring out ,the problem that presents itself is ,the question at issue is primarily ,the question is not ,the question presented is ,the question with me is ,the substance of all this is ,the time is not far distant when ,the time is short4 ,the truth of this has not been ,then1 finally1 ,then1 ,i repeat1 ,there are many people nowadays who ,there are people who tell you that ,there is a cynicism which ,there is a word which ,i wish to say ,there is another reason why ,there is another sense in which4 ,there is much force in ,there is no danger of our overrating the ,there is no evidence that ,there is no good reason why ,there is no mistaking the fact ,there is no other intelligible answer ,there is no parallel to ,there is no sufficient reason for ,there is none other4 ,there is not a shadow of ,there is one other point connected with ,there is one other point to which ,there is something suggestive in ,there was a time when none denied it4 ,these absurd pretensions ,they did what they could4 ,this being the case1 you will see ,this brings me to a point on which ,this does not mean ,this expectation was disappointed4 ,this ,i have already shown ,this is a great mistake4 ,this is it's last resort4 ,this is the only remaining alternative4 ,this leads me to the question ,this relieves me of the necessity of ,this is clearly perceived by ,this is especially true of ,this is essentially a question of ,this is very different from ,tho all this is obvious ,thus1 you see ,to avoid all possibility of being ,to be sure ,to-day ,i have additional satisfaction in ,to my own mind1 ,to my own mind1 certainly1 it is ,to pass from that ,i notice ,to take a very different instance ,to this end we must ,to this1 likewise1 it may be added ,to this there can be but one answer4 ,to show all this is easy and certain4 ,to show this in fact ,to sum up1 then ,truly1 gentlemen ,unless ,i am wholly wrong ,unless ,i greatly mistake the temper ,we all remember ,we are all aware that ,we are here to discuss ,we are now able to determine ,we are told that ,we can not leave unchallenged the ,we deny it4 ,we have an instance in ,we have no right to say ,we1 in our turn1 must ,we know they will not ,we laugh to scorn the idea ,we look around us ,we may have an overpowering sense of ,we may rest assured that ,we must not propose in ,we often speak of ,we ought1 first of all1 to note ,we should pause to consider ,we will hear much in these days ,we will not examine the proof of ,what are you asked to do8 ,what are you going to do8 ,what can be more intelligible than ,what do you say to ,what do we understand by ,what has become of it8 ,what is more remarkable still ,what is the answer to all this8 ,what is this but an acknowledgment of ,what is your opinion8 ,what then remains8 ,what we do say is ,when all has been said1 there remains ,when ,i look around me ,when it can be shown that ,when it is recognized that ,when that is said1 all is said ,when we contemplate the ,when we reflect on these sentiments ,where there is prejudice1 it is no use to argue4 ,who finds fault with these things8 ,why should an argument be required to prove that ,why should it be necessary to confirm ,will you tell me how ,with possibly a single exception ,with regard to what has been stated ,yet it is plain ,yet1 strange to say1 ,you and ,i may hold that ,you can not assert that ,you can not invent a series of argument ,you can not say that ,you do not pretend that ,you have the authority of ,you know as well as ,i do ,you may object at once1 and say ,you may object that ,you may point1 if you will1 to ,you may search the history of ,you tell me that ,you will say that ,,paragraphs ,,from ,,notable ,,speeches ,let me here pause once more to ask whether the book in its genuine state1 as far as we have advanced in it1 makes the same impression on your minds now as when it was first read to you in detached passages2 and whether1 if ,i were to tear off the first part of it1 which ,i hold in my hand1 and give it to you as an entire work1 the first and last passages1 which have been selected as libels on the ,commons1 would now appear to be so when blended with the interjacent parts8 ,i do not ask your answer--,i shall have it in your verdict4 ,,thomas ,,lord ,,erskine4 ,from ,speech in ,behalf of ,stockdale4 99 99 99 99 99 ,indeed1 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 ,war4 ,that divergence from our original ideal produced the pregnant sayings of ,mr4 ,lincoln1 ,a house divided against itself can not stand1 and its corollary1 ,this nation can not permanently endure half slave and half free4 ,he saw dearly that ,american democracy must rest1 if it continued to exist1 upon the ethical ideal which presided over its birth--that of the absolute equality of all men in political rights4 ,,wayne ,,macveagh4 ,from1 ,ideals in ,american ,politics4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the idea of liberty is license2 it is not liberty but it is license4 ,license to do what8 ,license to violate law1 to trample constitutions under foot1 to take life1 to take property1 to use the bludgeon and the gun or anything else for the purpose of giving themselves power4 ,what statesman ever heard of that us a definition of liberty8 ,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 authority8 ,no man--no1 not one--until we found the ,democratic party1 would advocate this proposition and indorse and encourage this kind of license in a free country4 ,,john ,,alexander ,,logan4 ,from ,self-government in ,louisiana4 99 99 99 99 99 ,my countrymen1 we do not now differ in our judgment concerning the controversies of past generations1 and fifty years hence our children will be divided in their opinions concerning our controversies4 ,they will surely bless their fathers and their fathers' ,god that the ,union was preserved1 that slavery was overthrown1 and that both races were made equal before the law4 ,we may hasten or we may retard1 but we can not prevent the final reconciliation4 ,is it not possible for us now to make a truce with time1 by anticipating and accepting its inevitable verdicts8 ,enterprises of the highest importance to our moral and material well-being invite us1 and offer ample scope for the employment of our best powers4 ,let all our people1 leaving behind them the battle-fields of dead issues1 move forward1 and1 in the strength of liberty and a restored ,union1 win the grander victories of peace4 ,,james ,,abram ,,garfield4 ,from ,inaugural ,address4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i wish you1 by the aid of the training which ,i recommend1 to be able to look beyond your own lives and have pleasure in surroundings different from those in which you move4 ,i want you to be able--and mark this point--to sympathize with other times1 to be able to understand the men and women of other countries1 and to have the intense enjoyment--an enjoyment which ,i am sure you would all appreciate--of mental change of scene4 ,i do not only want you to know dry facts2 ,i am not only looking to a knowledge of facts1 nor chiefly to that knowledge4 ,i want the heart to be stirred as well as the intellect4 ,i want you to feel more and live more than you can do if you only know what surrounds yourselves4 ,i want the action of the imagination1 the sympathetic study of history and travels1 the broad teaching of the poets1 and1 indeed1 of the best writers of other times and other countries1 to neutralize and check the dwarfing influences of necessarily narrow careers and necessarily stunted lives4 ,that is the point which you will see ,i mean when ,i ask you to cultivate the imagination4 ,i want to introduce you to other1 wider1 and nobler fields of thought1 and to open up vistas of other worlds1 when refreshing and bracing breezes will stream upon your minds and souls4 ,,george ,,joachim ,,goschen4 ,from ,on the ,cultivation of the ,imagination4 99 99 99 99 99 ,but it is a noteworthy fact that eminent qualities in men may often be traced to similar qualities in their mothers4 ,knowledge1 it is true1 is not hereditary1 but high mental qualities are so1 and experience and observation seem to prove that the transmission is chiefly through the mother's side4 ,but leaving this physiological view1 let us look at the purely educational4 ,imagine an educated mother training and molding the powers of her children1 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 influences1 selecting for them the best instructors1 encouraging and aiding them in their difficulties1 rejoicing with them in their successes1 able to take an intelligent interest in their progress in literature and science4 ,,john ,,william ,,dawson4 ,from ,on the ,higher ,education of ,women4 99 99 99 99 99 ,it only remains to remind you that another consideration has been strongly prest upon you1 and1 no doubt1 will be insisted on in reply4 ,you will be told that the matters which ,i have been justifying as legal1 and even meritorious1 have therefore not been made the subject of complaint2 and that whatever intrinsic merit parts of the book may be supposed or even admitted to possess1 such merit can afford no justification to the selected passages1 some of which1 even with1 the context1 carry the meaning charged by the information1 and which1 are indecent animadversions on authority4 ,,thomas ,,lord ,,erskine ,from ,speech in ,behalf of ,blockdale4 99 99 99 99 99 ,but let it now for argument's sake be admitted1 saving always the reputation of honorable men who are not here to defend themselves--let it1 ,i say1 for argument's sake1 be admitted that the gentlemen alluded to acted under the influence of improper motives4 ,what then8 ,is a law that has received the varied assent required by the ,constitution and is clothed with all the needful formalities thereby invalidated8 ,can you impair its force by impeaching the motives of any member who voted for it8 ,,gouverneur ,,morris4 ,from ,speech on the ,judiciary4 99 99 99 99 99 ,let us pause1 sir1 before we give an answer to this question4 ,the fate of us1 the fate of millions now alive1 the fate of millions yet unborn1 depend upon the answer4 ,let it be the result of calmness and intrepidity2 let it be dictated by the principles of loyalty and the principles of liberty4 ,let it be such as never1 in the worst events1 to give us reason to reproach ourselves1 or others reason to reproach us1 for having done too much or too little4 ,,james ,,wilson4 ,from ,vindication of the ,colonies4 99 99 99 99 99 ,it is impossible to deny the facts1 which were so glaring at the time4 ,it is a painful thing to me1 sir1 to be obliged to go back to these unfortunate periods of the history of this war and of the conduct of this country2 but ,i am forced to the task by the use which has been made of the atrocities of the ,french as an argument against negotiation4 ,i think ,i have said enough to prove that if the ,french have been guilty we have not been innocent4 ,nothing but determined incredulity can make us deaf and blind to our own acts1 when we are so ready to yield an assent to all the reproaches which are thrown out on the enemy1 and upon which reproaches we are gravely told to continue the war4 ,,charles ,,james ,,fox4 ,from ,on the ,rejection of ,bonaparte's ,overtures4 99 99 99 99 99 ,now ,i think the people ought not to be made to wait for the relief they have a right to demand4 ,they ought not to be made to suffer while we argue one another out of the recorded and inveterate opinions of our whole lives4 ,i say1 therefore1 for myself1 that1 anxious to afford them all the relief which they require1 regretting that the state of opinion around me puts it out of my power to afford that relief in the form ,i might prefer4 ,i accommodate myself to my position1 and make haste to do all that ,i can by the shortest way that ,i can4 ,consider how much better it is to relieve them to some substantial extent by this means1 at once1 than not to relieve at all1 than not to initiate a system or measure of relief at all1 and then go home at the end of this session of ,congress1 weak and weary1 and spend the autumn in trying to persuade them that it was the fault of some of our own friends that nothing was done4 ,how poor a compensation for wrongs to the people will be the victories over our friends6 ,,rufus ,,choate4 ,from ,the ,necessity of ,compromises in ,american ,politics4 99 99 99 99 99 ,it is of the very essence of true patriotism1 therefore1 to be earnest and truthful1 to scorn the flatterer's tongue1 and strive to keep its native land in harmony with the laws of national thrift and power4 ,it will tell a land of its faults as a friend will counsel a companion4 ,it will speak as honestly as the physician advises a patient4 ,and if occasion requires1 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 calf4 ,,thomas ,,starr ,,king4 ,from ,on the ,privilege and ,duties of ,patriotism4 99 99 99 99 99 ,our ,president is dead4 ,he has served us faithfully and well4 ,he has kept the faith2 he has finished his course4 ,henceforth there is laid up for him a crown of glory1 which the ,lord1 the righteous ,judge1 shall give him in that day4 ,and ,he who gave him to us1 and who so abundantly blest his labors1 and helped him to accomplish so much for his country and his race1 will not permit the country which ,he saved to perish4 ,i believe in the overruling providence of ,god1 and that1 in permitting the life of our ,chief ,magistrate to be extinguished1 ,he only closed one volume of the history of ,his dealings with this nation1 to open another whose pages shall be illustrated with fresh developments of ,his love and sweeter signs of ,his mercy4 ,what ,mr4 ,lincoln achieved he achieved for us2 but he left as a choice a legacy in his ,christian example1 in his incorruptible integrity1 and in his unaffected simplicity1 if we will appropriate it1 as in his public deeds4 ,so we take this excellent life and its results1 and1 thanking ,god for them1 cease all complaining and press forward under new leaders to now achievements1 and the completion of the great work which he who has gone left as a sacred trust upon our hands4 ,,josiah ,,gilbert ,,holland4 ,from ,eulogy of ,abraham ,lincoln4 99 99 99 99 99 ,patriotism says1 and says it in the interest of peace and economy and final fraternity1 ,fight and conquer even at the risk of holding them for a generation under the yoke4 ,fight1 tho1 on such a scale that there will be no need of holding them2 that they will gladly submit again to the rule which makes the republic one and blesses all portions with protection and with bounty4 ,fight till they shall know that they kick against fate and the resistless laws of the world6 ,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 threads4 ,,thomas ,,starr ,,king4 ,from ,on the ,privilege and ,duties of ,patriotism4 99 99 99 99 99 ,for myself1 ,i believe that whatever estrangements may have existed in the past1 or may linger among us now1 are born of ignorance and will be dispelled by knowledge4 ,i believe that of our forty-five ,states there are no two who1 if they could meet in the familiarity of the intercourse1 in the fulness of personal knowledge1 would not only cease to entertain any bitterness1 or alienation1 or distrust1 but each would utter to the other the words of the ,jewish daughter1 in that most exquisite of idylls which has come down to us almost from the beginning of time3 ,entreat me not to leave thee1 or to return from following after thee2 for whither thou guest1 ,i will go2 and where thou lodgest1 ,i will lodge2 thy people shall be my people1 and thy ,god my ,god4 ,where thou diest1 will ,i die1 and there will ,i be buried2 the ,lord do so to me1 and more also1 if aught but death part me and thee4 ,,george ,,frisbie ,,hoar4 ,from ,address at the ,banquet of the ,new ,england ,society4 99 99 99 99 99 ,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 history2 that there was no accident in it all2 that all the generations1 from the ,mayflower down1 marched to one measure and followed one flag2 that all the struggles1 all the self-sacrifice1 all the prayers and the tears1 all the fear of ,god1 all the soul-trials1 all the yearnings for national life1 of more than two centuries1 had contributed to make the country that he served and loved4 ,he1 too1 preached1 in season and out of season1 the gospel of ,nationality4 ,,joseph ,,hodges ,,choate4 ,from ,oration on ,rufus ,choate4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i leave these fellows and turn for a moment to their victims4 ,and ,i would here1 without any reference to my own case1 earnestly implore that sympathy with political sufferers should not be merely telescopic in its character1 distance lending enchantment to the view2 and that when your statesmen sentimentalize upon1 and your journalists denounce1 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 prisoners4 ,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 justice4 ,,stephen ,,joseph ,,meany4 ,from ,legality of ,arrest4 99 99 99 99 99 ,do you ask me our duty as scholars8 ,gentlemen1 thought1 which the scholar represents1 is life and liberty4 ,there is no intellectual or moral life without liberty4 ,therefore1 as a man must breathe and see before he can study1 the scholar must have liberty first of all2 and as the ,american scholar is a man and has a voice in his own government1 so his interest in political affairs must precede all others4 ,he must build his house before he can live in it4 ,he must be a perpetual inspiration of freedom in politics4 ,he must recognize that the intelligent exercise of political rights1 which is a privilege in a monarchy1 is a duty in a republic ,if it clash with his case1 his retirement1 his taste1 his study1 let it clash1 but let him do his duty4 ,the course of events is incessant1 and when the good deed is slighted1 the bad deed is done4 ,,george ,,william ,,curtis4 ,from ,the ,duty of the ,american ,scholar4 99 99 99 99 99 ,let us1 then1 go straight forward to our duty1 taking heed of nothing but the right4 ,in this wise shall we build a work in accord with the will of ,him who is daily fashioning the world to a higher destiny2 a work resting at no point upon wrong or injustice1 but everywhere reposing upon truth and justice2 a work which all mankind will be interested in preserving in every age1 since it will insure the increasing glory and well-being of mankind through all ages4 ,,ignatius ,,donnelly4 ,from ,reconstruction4 99 99 99 99 99 ,we are not only to do some things1 but we are to do all things1 and we are to continue so to do1 so that the least deviation from the moral law1 according to the covenant of works1 whether in thought1 word1 or deed1 deserves eternal death at the hand of ,god4 ,and if one evil thought1 if one evil word1 if one evil action deserves eternal damnation1 how many hells1 my friends1 do every one of us deserve whose lives have been one continued rebellion against ,god6 ,before ever1 therefore1 you can speak peace to your hearts1 you must be brought to see1 brought to believe1 what a dreadful thing it is to depart from the living ,god4 ,,george ,,whitefield4 ,from ,sermon1 ,on the ,method of ,grace4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i say we must necessarily undo these violent1 oppressive acts4 ,they must he repealed4 ,you will repeal them4 ,i pledge myself for it that you will in the end repeal them4 ,i stake my reputation on it4 ,i will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed4 ,avoid1 then1 this humiliating1 disgraceful necessity4 ,with a dignity becoming your exalted situation make the first advances to concord1 to peace1 and happiness2 for that is your true dignity1 to act with prudence and justice4 ,that you should first concede is obvious1 from sound and rational policy4 ,concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power4 ,it reconciles superiority of power with the feelings of men1 and establishes solid confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude4 ,,lord ,,chatham4 ,from ,on ,removing ,troops from ,boston4 ,for aught ,i know the next flash of electric fire that simmers along the ocean cable may tell us that ,paris1 with every fiber quivering with the agony of impotent despair1 writhes beneath the conquering heel of her loathed invader4 ,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 again4 ,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 seen1 as she shatters her withered and tear-moistened lilies o'er the bloody tomb of butchered ,france4 ,,james ,,proctor ,,knott4 ,from ,speech on ,duluth4 99 99 99 99 99 ,among her noblest children his native city will cherish him1 and gratefully recall the unbending ,puritan soul that dwelt in a form so gracious and urbane4 ,the plain house in which he lived--severely plain1 because the welfare of the suffering and the slave were preferred to books and pictures and every fair device of art2 the house to which the north star led the trembling fugitive1 and which the unfortunate and friendless knew2 the radiant figure passing swiftly through the streets1 plain as the house from which it came1 regal with royalty beyond that of kings2 the ceaseless charity untold2 the strong sustaining heart of private friendship2 the eloquence which1 like the song of ,orpheus1 will fade from living memory into a doubtful tale2 that great scene of his youth in ,faneuil ,hall2 the surrender of ambition2 the mighty agitation and the mighty triumph with which his name is forever blended2 the consecration of a life hidden with ,god in sympathy with man--these1 all these1 will live among your immortal traditions1 heroic even in your heroic story4 ,but not yours alone6 ,as years go by1 and only the large outlines of lofty ,american characters and careers remain1 the wide republic will confess the benediction of a life like this1 and gladly own that if with perfect faith and hope assured ,america would still stand and bid the distant generations hail1 the inspiration of her national life must be the sublime moral courage1 the all-embracing humanity1 the spotless integrity1 the absolutely unselfish1 devotion of great powers to great public ends1 which were the glory of ,wendell ,phillips4 ,,george ,,william ,,curtis4 ,from ,eulogy of ,wendell ,phillips4 99 99 99 99 99 ,no1 it is something else than circumstances which makes us do ,god's will1 just as it is something else than miracle which makes us believe ,his word4 ,miracle and circumstances do their part4 ,they assist the heart2 they make the task of the will easier2 they do not compel obedience4 ,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 ,him4 ,if ,moses and the prophets are to persuade us--if we are not to be beyond persuasion1 tho one rose from the dead--there must be that inward seeking1 yearning after ,god1 that wholeness of heart1 that tender and affectionate disposition toward ,him who is the end as ,he is the source of our existence1 of which the ,bible is so full from first to last--which is the very essence of religion--which ,he1 its object and its author1 gives most assuredly to all who ask ,him4 ,,henry ,,parry ,,liddon4 ,from ,sermon1 ,the ,adequacy of ,present ,opportunities4 99 99 99 99 99 ,instantly under such an influence you ascend above the smoke and stir of this small local strife2 you tread upon the high places of the earth and of history2 you think and feel as an ,american for ,america2 her power1 her eminence1 her consideration1 her honor1 are yours2 your competitors1 like hers1 are kings2 your home1 like hers1 is the world2 your path1 like hers1 is on the highway of empires2 our charge1 her charge1 is of generations and ages2 your record1 her record1 is of treaties1 battles1 voyages1 beneath all the constellations2 her image1 one1 immortal1 golden1 rises on your eye as our western star at evening rises on the traveler from his home2 no lowering cloud1 no angry river1 no lingering spring1 no broken crevasse1 no inundated city or plantation1 no tracts of sand1 arid and burning1 on that surface1 but all blended and softened into one beam of kindred rays1 the image1 harbinger1 and promise of love1 hope1 and a brighter day6 ,,rufus ,,choate4 ,from ,oration on ,american ,nationality4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i believe in woman-suffrage for the sake of woman herself4 ,i believe in it because ,i am the son of a woman and the husband of a woman and the father of a prospective woman4 ,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 town1 considered half a lunatic4 ,that didn't make much impression in those days when we were all considered a little crazy1 but he was a little crazier than the rest of us4 ,he pushed forward on the platform1 seeming impatient to speak1 and throwing his old hat down by his side1 he said1 ,i don't know much about this subject nor any other2 but ,i know this1 my mother was a woman4 ,i thought it was the best condensed woman-suffrage argument ,i ever heard in my life4 ,,thomas ,,wentworth ,,higginson4 ,from ,for ,self-respect and ,self-protection4 ,when the people complain they must either be right or in error4 ,if they be right1 we are in duty bound to inquire into the conduct of the ministers and to punish those who appear to have been most guilty4 ,if they be in error1 we ought still to inquire into the conduct of our ministers in order to convince the people that they have been misled4 ,we ought not1 therefore1 in any question relating to inquiry1 to be governed by our own sentiments4 ,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 king4 ,,lord ,,chatham4 ,from ,second ,speech on ,sir ,robert ,walpole4 99 99 99 99 99 ,for this great evil some immediate remedy must be provided2 and ,i confess1 my lords1 ,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 all4 ,i flattered myself ,i should see some barriers thrown up in defense of the constitution2 some impediment formed to stop the rapid progress of corruption4 ,i doubt not we all agree that something must be done4 ,i shall offer my thoughts1 such as they are1 to the consideration of the ,house2 and ,i wish that every noble lord that hears me would be as ready as ,i am to contribute his opinion to this important service4 ,i will not call my own sentiments crude and undigested4 ,it would he unfit for me to offer anything to your lordships which ,i had not well considered2 and this subject1 ,i own1 has not long occupied my thoughts4 ,i will now give them to your lordships without reserve4 ,,lord ,,chatham4 ,from ,speech ,on the ,state of the ,nation4 99 99 99 99 99 ,we have the freedom and freshness of a youthful nationality4 ,we can trace out new paths which must be followed by our successors2 we have a right to plant wherever we please the trees under shade of which they will sit4 ,the independence which we thus enjoy1 and the freedom to originate which we can claim1 are in themselves privileges1 but privileges that carry with them great responsibilities4 ,,john ,,william ,,dawson4 ,from ,on the ,progress of ,science in ,canada4 99 99 99 99 99 ,from your great cities and teeming prairies1 from your learned altars and countless cottages1 from your palaces on sea and land1 from your millions on the waters and your multiplied millions on the plains1 let one united cheering voice meet the voice that now comes so earnest from the ,south1 and let the two voices go up in harmonious1 united1 eternal1 ever-swelling chorus1 ,flag of our ,union6 wave on2 wave ever6 ,ay1 for it waves over freemen1 not subjects2 over ,states1 not provinces2 over a union of equals1 not of lords and vassals2 over a land of law1 of liberty1 and peace1 not of anarchy1 oppression1 and strife6 ,,benjamin ,,harvey ,,hill4 ,from ,on the ,perils of the ,nation4 99 99 99 99 99 ,it is really astonishing to hear such an argument seriously urged in this ,house4 ,but1 say these gentlemen1 if you found yourself upon a precipice1 would you stand to inquire how you were led there before you considered how to get off8 ,no1 sir2 but if a guide had led me there ,i should very probably be provoked to throw him over before ,i thought of anything else4 ,at least ,i am sure ,i should not trust to the same guide for bringing me off2 and this1 sir1 is the strongest argument that can be used for an inquiry4 ,,lord ,,chatham4 ,from ,speech on ,sir ,robert ,walpole4 99 99 99 99 99 ,but let us hope for better things4 ,let us trust in that gracious ,being who has hitherto held our country as in the hollow of his hand4 ,let us trust to the virtue and the intelligence of the people1 and to the efficacy of religious obligation4 ,let us trust to the influence of ,washington's example4 ,let us hope that that fear of heaven which expels all other fear1 and that regard to duty which transcends all other regard1 may influence public men and private citizens1 and lead our country still onward in her happy career4 ,full of these gratifying anticipations and hopes1 let us look forward to the end of that century which is now commenced4 ,a hundred years hence other disciples of ,washington will celebrate his birth1 with no less of sincere admiration than we now commemorate it4 ,when they shall meet1 as we now meet1 to do themselves and him that honor1 so surely as they shall see the blue summits to his native mountains rise in the horizon1 so surely as they shall behold the river on whose banks he lived1 and on whose banks he rests1 still flowing on toward the sea1 so surely may they see1 as we now see1 the flag of the ,union floating on the top of the capitol2 and then1 as now1 may the sun in his course visit no land more free1 more happy1 more lovely1 than this our own country6 ,,daniel ,,webster4 ,from ,the ,character of ,washington4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i am now talking of the invisible realities of another world1 of inward religion1 of the work of ,god upon a poor sinner's heart4 ,i am now talking of a matter of great importance1 my dear hearers2 you are all concerned in it1 your souls are concerned in it1 your eternal salvation is concerned in it4 ,you may be all at peace1 but perhaps the devil has lulled you asleep into a carnal lethargy and security1 and will endeavor to keep you there till he get you to hell1 and there you will be awakened2 but it will be dreadful to be awakened and find yourselves so fearfully mistaken1 when the great gulf is fixt1 when you will be calling to all eternity for a drop of water to cool your tongue and shall not obtain it4 ,,george ,,whitefield4 ,from ,on the ,method of ,grace4 99 99 99 99 99 ,why1 sir1 have ,i been so careful in bringing down with great particularity these distinctions8 ,because in my judgment there are certain logical consequences following from them as necessarily as various corollaries from a problem in ,euclid4 ,if we are at war1 as ,i think1 with a foreign country1 to all intents and purposes1 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 country8 ,,benjamin ,,franklin ,,butler4 ,from ,character and ,results of ,war4 99 99 99 99 99 ,my lords1 this awful subject1 so important to our honor1 constitution1 and our religion1 demands the most solemn and effectual inquiry4 ,and again ,i call upon your lordships1 and the united powers of the ,state1 to examine it thoroughly and decisively and to stamp upon it an indelible stigma of the public abhorrence4 ,and again ,i implore those holy prelates of our religion to do away these iniquities from among us4 ,let them perform an illustration2 let them purify this ,house and this country from this sin4 ,,lord ,,chatham4 ,from ,the ,attempt to ,subjugate ,america4 99 99 99 99 99 ,now1 there are three questions before the people of the country to-day1 and they are all public1 all unselfish1 all patriotic1 all elevated1 and all ennobling as subjects of contemplation and of action4 ,they are the public peace in this large and general sense that ,i have indicated4 ,they are the public faith1 without which there is no such thing as honorable national life2 and the public service1 which unless pure and strong and noble makes all the pagans of free government but doggerel in our ears4 ,,william ,,maxwell ,,evarts4 ,from ,the ,day ,we ,celebrate4 99 99 99 99 99 ,indeed1 gentlemen1 ,washington's farewell address is full of truths important at all times1 and particularly deserving consideration at the present4 ,with a sagacity which brought the future before him1 and made it like the present1 he saw and pointed out the dangers that even at this moment most imminently threaten us4 ,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 paper1 and an earnest invitation to every man in the country to reperuse and consider it4 ,its political maxims are invaluable2 its exhortations to love of country and to brotherly affection among citizens1 touching2 and the solemnity with which it urges the observance of moral duties1 and impresses the power of religious obligation1 gives to it the highest character of truly disinterested1 sincere1 parental advice4 ,,daniel ,,webster4 ,from ,the ,character of ,washington4 99 99 99 99 99 ,let no man dare1 when ,i am dead1 to charge me with dishonor2 let no man attaint my memory by believing that ,i could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence2 or that ,i could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen4 ,the proclamation of the provisional government speaks for our views2 no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarily or debasement at home1 or subjection1 humiliation1 or treachery from abroad4 ,i would not have submitted to a foreign oppressor for the same reason that ,i would resist the foreign and domestic oppressor2 in the dignity of freedom ,i would have fought upon the threshold of my country1 and its enemy should enter only by passing over my lifeless corpse4 ,am ,i1 who lived but for my country1 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 it8 ,no1 ,god forbid6 ,,robert ,,emmet4 ,from ,speech when under ,sentence of ,death4 99 99 99 99 99 ,when the law is the will of the people1 it will be uniform and coherent2 but fluctuation1 contradiction1 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 ministers1 that they ever pursue measures directly opposite to those of their predecessors4 ,,samuel ,,adams4 ,from ,american ,independence4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i refer to the past not in malice1 for this is no day for malice1 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 then1 the new dispensation of freedom with its thousand blessings to both races1 and the old dispensation of slavery with its ten thousand evils to both races--white and black4 ,in view1 then1 of the past1 the present1 and the future1 with the long and dark history of our bondage behind us1 and with liberty1 progress and enlightenment before us1 ,i again congratulate you upon this auspicious day and hour4 ,,frederick ,,douglass4 ,from ,inauguration of the ,freedmen's ,memorial ,monument to ,abraham ,lincoln4 99 99 99 99 99 ,in all popular tumults the worst men bear the sway at first4 ,moderate and good men are often silent for fear of modesty1 who in good time may declare themselves4 ,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 dwelling1 person1 and property are hourly exposed4 ,numbers of such valuable men and good subjects are ready and willing to declare themselves for the support of government in due time1 if government does not fling away its own authority4 ,,lord ,,mansfield4 ,from ,the ,right of ,england to ,tax ,america4 99 99 99 99 99 ,in jurisprudence1 which reluctantly admits any new adjunct1 and counts in its train a thousand champions ready to rise in defense of its formularies and technical rules1 the victory has been brilliant and decisive4 ,the civil and the common law have yielded to the pressure of the times1 and have adopted much which philosophy and experience have recommended1 altho it stood upon no test of the pandects and claimed no support from the feudal polity4 ,commercial law1 at least so far as ,england and ,america are concerned1 is the creation of the eighteenth century4 ,it started into life with the genius of ,lord ,mansfield1 and1 gathering in its course whatever was valuable in the earlier institutes of foreign countries1 had reflected back upon them its own superior lights1 so as to become the guide and oracle of the commercial world4 ,,joseph ,,story4 ,from ,characteristics of the ,age4 99 99 99 99 99 ,when that history comes to be written you know whose will be the central and prominent figure4 ,you know that ,mr4 ,gladstone will stand out before posterity as the greatest man of his time--remarkable not only for his extraordinary eloquence1 for his great ability1 for his stedfastness of purpose1 for his constructive skill1 but more1 perhaps1 than all these1 for his personal character1 and for the high tone that he has introduced into our polities and public fife4 ,i sometimes think that great men are like great mountains1 and that we do not appreciate their magnitude while we are close to them4 ,you have to go to a distance to see which peak it is that towers above its fellows2 and it may be that we shall have to put between us and ,mr4 ,gladstone a space of time before we shall see how much greater he has been than any of his competitors for fame and power4 ,,joseph ,,chamberlain4 ,from ,on ,liberal ,aims4 99 99 99 99 99 ,let us never despair of our country4 ,actual evils can be mitigated2 bad tendencies can be turned aside2 the burdens of government can be diminished2 productive industry will be renewed2 and frugality will repair the waste of our resources4 ,then shall the golden days of the republic once more return1 and the people become prosperous and happy1 ,,samuel ,,jones ,,tilden4 ,from ,address on ,administrative ,reform4 99 99 99 99 99 ,had ,abraham ,lincoln died from any of the numerous ills to which flesh is heir2 had he reached that good old age to which his rigorous constitution and his temperate habits gave promise2 had he been permitted to see the end of his great work2 had the solemn curtain of death come down but gradually1 we should still have been smitten with a heavy grief and treasured his name lovingly4 ,but dying as he did die1 by the red hand of violence2 killed1 assassinated1 taken off without warning1 not because of personal hate1 but because of his fidelity to ,union and liberty1 he is doubly dear to us and will be precious forever4 ,,frederick ,,douglass4 ,from ,inauguration of the ,freedmen's ,memorial ,monument to ,abraham ,lincoln4 99 99 99 99 99 ,let this be an occasion of joy4 ,why should it not be so6 ,is not the heaven over your heads1 which has so long been clothed in sackcloth1 beginning to disclose its starry principalities and illumine your pathway8 ,do you not see the pitiless storm which1 has so long been pouring its rage upon you breaking away1 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 race2 but seedtime and harvest shall never fail1 and the laborer shall eat the fruit of his hands4 ,is not your cause developing like the spring8 ,yours has been a long and rigorous winter4 ,the chill of contempt1 the frost of adversity1 the blast of persecution1 the storm of oppression--all have been yours4 ,there was no substance to be found--no prospect to delight the eye or inspire the drooping heart--no golden ray to dissipate the gloom4 ,the waves of derision were stayed by no barrier1 but made a clear breach over you4 ,but now--thanks be to ,god6 that dreary winter is rapidly hastening away4 ,the sun of humanity is going steadily up from the horizon to its zenith1 growing larger and brighter1 and melting the frozen earth beneath1 its powerful rays4 ,the genial showers of repentance are softly falling upon the barren plain2 the wilderness is budding like the rose2 the voice of joy succeeds the cotes of we2 and hope1 like the lark1 is soaring upward and warbling hymns at the gate of heaven4 ,,william ,,lloyd ,,garrison4 ,from ,words of ,encouragement to the ,opprest4 99 99 99 99 99 ,listen to the voice of justice and of reason2 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 error4 ,had you imagined the most perfect judicial system2 had you found the most upright and enlightened judges1 there will always remain some room for error or prejudice4 ,why interdict to yourselves the means of reparation8 ,why condemn yourself to powerlessness to help opprest innocence8 ,what good can come of the sterile regrets1 these illusory reparations you grant to a vain shade1 to insensible ashes8 ,they are the sad testimonials of the barbarous temerity of your penal laws4 ,to rob the man of the possibility of expiating his crime by his repentance or by acts of virtue2 to close to him without mercy every return toward a proper life1 and his own esteem2 to hasten his descent1 as it were1 into the grave still covered with the recent blotch1 of his crime1 is in my eyes the most horrible refinement of cruelty4 ,,maximilien ,,marie ,,isidore ,,robespierre4 ,from ,against ,capital ,punishment4 99 99 99 99 99 ,and love1 young men1 love and venerate the ideal4 ,the ideal is the word of ,god4 ,high above every country1 high above humanity1 is the country of the spirit1 the city of the soul1 in which all are brethren who believe in the inviolability of thought and in the dignity of our immortal soul2 and the baptism of this fraternity is martyrdom4 ,from that high sphere spring the principles which alone can redeem the peoples4 ,arise for the sake of these1 and not from impatience of suffering or dread of evil4 ,anger1 pride1 ambition1 and the desire of material prosperity1 are common alike to the peoples and their oppressors1 and even should you conquer with these to-day1 you would fall again to-morrow2 but principles belong to the peoples alone1 and their oppressors can find no arms to oppose them4 ,adore enthusiasm1 the dreams of the virgin soul1 and the visions of early youth1 for they are a perfume of paradise which the soul retains in issuing from the hands of its ,creator4 ,respect1 above all things1 your conscience2 have upon your lips the truth implanted by ,god in your hearts1 and1 while laboring in harmony1 even with those who differ from you1 in all that tends to the emancipation of our soil1 yet ever bear your own banner erect and boldly promulgate your own faith4 ,,giuseppe ,,mazzini4 ,from ,to the ,young ,men of ,italy4 99 99 99 99 99 ,even if we conquer the ,south1 as conquer we must1 unless chastened by visible misfortunes in the ,north1 our triumph breeding unbounded conceit1 we plunge the deeper in the vortex of voluptuous prosperity1 our country forgotten by the people1 its honors and dignities the sport and plunder of every knave and fool that can court or bribe the mob1 the national debt repudiated1 justice purchased in her temples as laws now are in the ,legislature1 the life and property of no man safe1 the last relics of public virtue destroyed1 anarchy will reign amid universal ruin4 ,,daniel ,,dougherty4 ,from ,address on the ,perils of the ,republic4 99 99 99 99 99 ,to conclude ,how are the mighty fallen6 ,fallen before the desolating hand of death4 ,alas1 the ruins of the tomb6 ,the ruins of the tomb are an emblem of the ruins of the world2 when not an individual1 but a universe1 already marred by sin and hastening to dissolution1 shall agonize and die6 ,directing your thoughts from the one1 fix them for a moment on the other4 ,anticipate the concluding scene1 the final catastrophe of nature1 when the sign of the ,son of man shall he seen in heaven2 when the ,son of man ,himself shall appear in the glory of his ,father1 and send forth judgment unto victory4 ,the fiery desolation envelops towns1 palaces1 and fortresses2 the heavens pass away6 the earth melts6 and all those magnificent productions of art which ages heaped on ages have reared up are in one awful day reduced to ashes4 ,,eliphalet ,,nott4 ,from the sermon ,on the ,death of ,alexander ,hamilton4 99 99 99 99 99 ,westward the course of empire takes its way2 ,the four first acts already past1 ,a fifth shall close the drama with the day3 ,time's noblest offspring is the last4 ,this extraordinary prophecy may be considered only as the result of long foresight and uncommon sagacity2 of a foresight and sagacity stimulated1 nevertheless1 by excited feeling and high enthusiasm4 ,so clear a vision of what ,america would become was not founded on square miles1 or on existing numbers1 or on any common laws of statistics4 ,it was an intuitive glance into futurity2 it was a grand conception1 which they have hitherto so hopelessly mismanaged1 you must expect to go on from had to worse2 you must expect to lose the little prestige which you retain2 you must expect to find in other portions of the world the results of the lower consideration that you occupy in the eyes of mankind2 you must expect to be drawn1 on1 degree by degree1 step by step1 under the cover of plausible excuses1 under the cover of highly philanthropic sentiments1 to irreparable disasters1 and to disgrace that it will be impossible to efface4 ,,lord ,,salisbury4 ,from ,speech on the ,abandonment of ,general ,gordon4 99 99 99 99 99 ,you will pardon me1 gentlemen1 if ,i say ,i think that we have need of a more rigorous scholastic rule2 such an asceticism1 ,i mean1 as only the hardihood and devotion of the scholar himself can enforce4 ,we live in the sun and on the surface--a thin1 plausible1 superficial existence1 and talk of muse and prophet1 of art and creation4 ,but out of our shallow and frivolous way of life1 how can greatness ever grow8 ,come now1 let us go and be dumb4 ,let us sit with our hands on our mouths1 a long1 austere1 ,pythagorean lustrum4 ,let us live in corners and do chores1 and suffer1 and weep1 and drudge1 with eyes and hearts that love the ,lord4 ,silence1 seclusion1 austerity1 may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being1 and so living bring up out of secular darkness the sublimities of the moral constitution4 ,how mean to go blazing1 a gaudy butterfly1 in fashionable or political saloons1 the fool of society1 the fool of notoriety1 a topic for newspapers1 a piece of the street1 and forfeiting the real prerogative of the russet coat1 the privacy1 and the true and warm heart of the citizen6 ,,emerson4 ,from ,literary ,ethics4 99 99 99 99 99 ,sir1 we are assembled to commemorate the establishment of great public principles of liberty1 and to do honor to the distinguished dead4 ,the occasion is too severe for eulogy to the living4 ,but1 sir1 your interesting relation to this country1 the peculiar circumstances which surround you and surround us1 call on me to express the happiness which we derive from your presence and aid in this solemn commemoration4 ,,webster4 ,from ,laying the ,cornerstone of ,bunker ,hill ,monument4 99 99 99 99 99 ,all experience teaches that the requirements and impartial practise of the principles of civil and religious liberty can not speedily be acquired by the inhabitants1 left to their own way1 under a protectorate by this nation4 ,the experience of this nation in governing and endeavoring to civilize the ,indians teaches this4 ,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 way4 ,the advancement in civilization1 was very slow and hardly perceptible4 ,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 rapid4 ,this is in accord with all experience4 ,the un-taught can not become acquainted with the difficult problems of government and of individual rights and their due enforcement without skilful guides4 ,,jonathan ,,ross4 ,from ,the ,nation's ,relation to ,its ,island ,possessions4 99 99 99 99 99 ,my friend1 will you hear me to-day8 ,hark6 what is ,he saying to you8 ,come unto me1 all ye that labor and are heavy laden1 and ,i will give you rest4 ,take my yoke upon you and learn of me2 for ,i am meek and lowly in heart2 and ye shall find rest unto your souls4 ,for my yoke is easy1 and my burden is light4 ,will you not think well of such a ,savior8 ,will you not believe in ,him8 ,will you not trust in ,him with all your heart and mind8 ,will you not live for ,him8 ,if ,he laid down ,his life for us1 is it not the least we can do to lay down ours for ,him8 ,if ,he bore the cross and died on it for me1 ought ,i not be willing to take it up for ,him8 ,oh have we not reason to think well of ,him8 ,do you think it is right and noble to lift up your voice against such1 a ,savior8 ,do you think it just to cry ,crucify ,him6 crucify ,him6 ,oh1 may ,god help all of us to glorify the ,father1 by thinking well of ,his only-begotten ,son4 ,,dwight ,,lyman ,,moody4 ,from ,what ,think ,ye of ,christ8 99 99 99 99 99 ,life has been often styled an ocean and our progress through it a voyage4 ,the ocean is tempestuous and billowy1 overspread by a cloudy sky1 and fraught beneath with shelves and quick-sands4 ,the voyage is eventful beyond comprehension1 and at the same time full of uncertainty and replete with danger4 ,every adventurer needs to be well prepared for whatever may befall him1 and well secured against the manifold hazards of losing his course1 sinking in the abyss1 or of being wrecked against the shore4 ,,timothy ,,dwight4 ,from ,sermon1 ,the ,sovereignty of ,god4 99 99 99 99 99 ,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 government1 or from ancient records1 as being little to the purpose4 ,i shall insist that these records are no proofs of our present constitution4 ,a noble lord has taken up his argument from the settlement of the constitution at the revolution2 ,i shall take up my argument from the constitution as it is now4 ,,mansfield4 ,from ,the ,right of ,england to ,tax ,america4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the rays from this torch illuminate a century of unbroken friendship between ,france and the ,united ,states4 ,peace and its opportunities for material progress and the expansion of popular liberties send from here a fruitful and noble lesson to all the world4 ,it will teach the people of all countries that in curbing the ambitions and dynastic purposes of princes and privileged classes1 and in cultivating the brotherhood of man1 lies the true road to their enfranchisement4 ,the friendship of individuals1 their unselfish devotion to each other1 their willingness to die in each other's stead1 are the most tender and touching of human records2 they are the inspiration of youth and the solace of age2 but nothing human is so beautiful and sublime as two great peoples of alien race and language4 ,,chauncey ,,mitchell ,,depew4 ,from ,oration at the ,unveiling of the ,bartholdi ,statue4 99 99 99 99 99 ,with consciences satisfied with the discharge of duty1 no consequences can harm you4 ,there is no evil that we can not either face or fly from1 but the consciousness of duty disregarded4 ,a sense of duty pursues us ever4 ,it is omnipresent1 like the ,deity4 ,if we take to ourselves the wings of the morning1 and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea1 duty performed1 or duty violated1 is still with us1 for our happiness or our misery4 ,if we say the darkness shall cover us1 in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us4 ,we can not escape their power1 nor fly from their presence4 ,they are with us in this life1 will be with us at its close2 and in that scene of inconceivable solemnity1 which lies yet further onward1 we shall still find ourselves surrounded by the consciousness of duty1 to pain us wherever it has been violated1 and to console us so far as ,god may have given us grace to perform it4 ,,webster4 ,from ,the ,trial of ,john ,francis ,knapp for the ,murder of ,captain ,joseph ,white4 99 99 99 99 99 ,in the short space of time spanned by a single life1 as if by the touch of the enchanter's wand1 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 day4 ,population has increased from three to thirty millions4 ,instead of thirteen1 thirty-one stars now shine in the clear blue of this glorious flag4 ,the multitudinous pursuits of enlightened life are cultivated to their highest pitch4 ,the press is mighty and free4 ,peace and contentment smile alike around the poor man's hearth and the rich man's hall4 ,education scatters its priceless gift to every home in the land4 ,religion gathers around its altars the faithful of every creed4 ,statesmen have arisen fit to govern all the world and rule it when 'tis wildest4 ,orators have appeared who have rivaled the great masters of antiquity4 ,the doors of the ,american ,parthenon are ever open to invite the humble but aspiring youth to enter and fill the loftiest niche4 ,the highest dignity is within the grasp of all2 for the lowly boy1 born and reared in our own sweet valley of ,cumberland1 shall1 when the spring comes round again1 be clothed by the people with the first of mortal honors--that of guiding for a time the ,american republic upon her highway of glory4 ,,daniel ,,dougherty4 ,from ,oration on ,democracy4