Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States: And Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration, Volume 139Houghton Mifflin, 1909 - 119 pages |
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Page 18 - 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; and every day the increasing
Page 17 - of those out of whom a choice is to be made. I beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured, that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen
Page 37 - governed me, uninfluenced by any attempts to deter or divert me from it. After deliberate examination, with the aid of the best lights I could obtain, I was well satisfied that our country, under all the circumstances of the case, had a right to take, and was bound in duty and
Page 24 - To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this
Page 30 - essential that public opinion should be enlightened. As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater
Page 3 - that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause. . . But I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in
Page 106 - why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?" Indeed, Gentlemen, Washington's Farewell Address is full of truths important at all times, and particularly deserving
Page 43 - address. It was at the close of a dedicatory passage on the monument that he uttered the words, " Let it rise till it meet the sun in its coming ; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Page 23 - neighboring countries not tied together by the same / governments, which their own rivalships alone would \ be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate } and embitter. Hence, likewise, they will avoid the
Page 3 - But I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in this room that: I, this day, declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.