 | 1857 - 862 páginas
...of the citizen, told us this great truth in words of classic strength and clearness, when he said, " The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty ! " This is a pregnant sentence, and has all the force of a precept, were it necessary so to interpret... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 866 páginas
...of the citizen, told us this great truth in words of classic strength and clearness, when he said, " The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty ! " This is a pregnant sentence, and has all the force of a precept, were it necessary so to interpret... | |
 | Missouri. Convention - 1861 - 154 páginas
...scarcely a ripple upon the surface of the Republic — when nobody thought of dissolving the Republic : " The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty ; and liberty is only to be maintained by constitutional restraints and just divisions of political... | |
 | John A. Marshall - 1869 - 754 páginas
...the horrors seen and felt in the secret chambers of the American Inquisition " Daniel Webster said : 'The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty ; and liberty is to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of political... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1872 - 324 páginas
...polished order on which depend the peace and progress of our happy people. NOTES.— Mr. Webster said ; " The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty, and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1873 - 396 páginas
...order on which depend the peace and progress of our happy people. NOTEs. — Mr. Webster said : ' ' The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty, and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 418 páginas
...which give but the scantiest notions of the richness of suggestion in these reports : " It is difficult to reach the sources of ignorance and consequent crime...object of a free people is the preservation of their liberties. It becomes, then, their first duty to assume the training of all the children in the principles... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 páginas
...the Protest, of the very highest importance, and which demand nothing less than our utmost attention. The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty ; and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 páginas
...the Protest, of the very highest importance, and which demand nothing less than our utmost attention. ecessarily connected us with ; and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1885 - 200 páginas
...or remove them, — all belong to the representative character, are interwoven with its very nature. The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty; and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of... | |
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The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty; and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of political power. Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of... 
