The Life of Gouverneur Morris: With Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers ; Detailing Events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the Political History of the United States, Tom 3Gray & Bowen, 1832 |
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Strona 122 - I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me the 4th instant, as also those which accompanied it.
Strona 263 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Strona 50 - To plague the inventor : This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Strona 323 - The legislative lion will not be entangled in the meshes of a logical net. It will always make the power which it wishes to exercise, unless it be so organized as to contain within itself the sufficient check. Attempts to restrain it from outrage by other means will only render it more outrageous.
Strona 185 - I knew as well then, as I do now, that all North America must at length be annexed to us. Happy, indeed, if the lust of dominion stop there. It would, therefore, have been perfectly Utopian to oppose a paper restriction to the violence of popular sentiment in a popular government.
Strona 262 - Hamilton knew these things from the study of history, and perceived them by the intuition of genius, he never failed on every occasion to advocate the excellence of, and avow his attachment to, monarchical government. By this course he not only cut himself off from all chance of rising into office, but singularly promoted the views of his opponents...
Strona 66 - I have here made of my political creed, you can run no hazard in asserting, that the executive branch of this government never has suffered, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity, nor give its sanctions to any disorderly proceedings of its citizens.
Strona 65 - It is well known, that peace has been (to borrow a modern phrase) the order of the day with me since the disturbances in Europe first commenced. My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor...
Strona 383 - ... this is the evident intention if not the express words of the constitution. The convention in framing, the American people in adopting that compact, did not, could not, presume that the Congress would omit to do what they were thus bound to do. They could not presume that the legislature would hesitate one moment in establishing the organs necessary to carry into effect those wholesome, those important provisions. The honorable member from Virginia has given us a history of the judicial system,...
Strona 402 - Cast not away this only anchor of our safety. I have seen its progress. I know the difficulties through which it was obtained. I stand in the presence of Almighty God and of the world. I declare to you, that if you lose this charter, never, no never, will you get another. We are now perhaps arrived at the parting point. Here, even here, we stand on the brink of fate. Pause, then — pause. For Heaven's sake, pause.