The North American IdeaF. H. Revell Company, 1917 - 240 páginas |
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Página 103 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Página 220 - It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
Página 41 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Página 102 - For, in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are eve•ry day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own. To prove that ' the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself...
Página 141 - You will we hate with a lasting hate, We will never forego our hate, Hate by water and hate by land, Hate of the head and hate of the hand, Hate of the hammer and hate of the Crown. Hate of the seventy millions choking down. We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe and one alone: England!
Página 173 - We are laying the foundation of a great State — perhaps one which at a future day may even overshadow this country. But, come what may, we shall rejoice that we have shown neither indifference to their wishes nor jealousy of their aspirations, but that we honestly and sincerely to the utmost of our power and knowledge fostered their growth, recognizing in it the conditions of our own greatness.
Página 25 - No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life, perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.
Página 172 - I had always believed— and the belief has so confirmed and consolidated itself that I can hardly realize the possibility of anyone seriously thinking the contrary— that the destiny of our colonies is independence; and that, in this point of view, the function of the Colonial Office is to secure that our connection, while it lasts, shall be as profitable to both parties, and our separation, when it comes, as amicable as possible.
Página 210 - I am confident that, about the end of this century or the beginning of the next century, the greatest war in the history of Europe will occur.
Página 27 - I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke: I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain And pronounced on the rest of his handwork — returned him again His creation's approval or censure: I spoke as I saw: I report, as a man may of God's work — all's love, yet all's law.