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... wealth and fashion , but we know also that this idea is but a misguided sentimentality . Commerce is not a corrupter , but a purifier and elevator of political atmospheres . The meanest politicians have ever been men that knew nothing ...
... wealth and fashion , but we know also that this idea is but a misguided sentimentality . Commerce is not a corrupter , but a purifier and elevator of political atmospheres . The meanest politicians have ever been men that knew nothing ...
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... wealth therein . It is a scramble for riches , not competence . Of such folks , as quoted already , Less- ing says : " A people so eager for gain care but little whether it is got rightfully or wrongfully , or whether by cunning or by ...
... wealth therein . It is a scramble for riches , not competence . Of such folks , as quoted already , Less- ing says : " A people so eager for gain care but little whether it is got rightfully or wrongfully , or whether by cunning or by ...
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... wealth is no one's poverty . But can those who used the opportunity furnished by a thoughtless govern- ment to enrich themselves , or who buy lands to hold them for re - sale at a profit , say as much ? Is not their growth in riches an ...
... wealth is no one's poverty . But can those who used the opportunity furnished by a thoughtless govern- ment to enrich themselves , or who buy lands to hold them for re - sale at a profit , say as much ? Is not their growth in riches an ...
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... wealth ; and it was not an accident , but an inevitable incident , that the first great public issue under the articles was the land question , and that it had to be settled , extraneously of the articles , by the abnormal ordinance of ...
... wealth ; and it was not an accident , but an inevitable incident , that the first great public issue under the articles was the land question , and that it had to be settled , extraneously of the articles , by the abnormal ordinance of ...
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... wealth and to found homes , would work themselves , of themselves , into an organic society ; and he said as much , when he justified the free self- government which his plan contained , by suggesting that " young societies might be ...
... wealth and to found homes , would work themselves , of themselves , into an organic society ; and he said as much , when he justified the free self- government which his plan contained , by suggesting that " young societies might be ...
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Page 570 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Page 287 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 369 - The credit of the State shall not, in any manner, be given or loaned to, or in aid of, any individual, association or corporation...
Page 590 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 341 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 57 - And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
Page 279 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 316 - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made, so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance...
Page 454 - Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system; and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 93 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...