The Best American Orations of To-dayHinds & Noble, 1903 - 291 sayfa It has been the aim of the editor to collect in this volume the best thoughts of the best Americans of this distinctively notable period in the history of our own Nation - men who are most prominent in its affairs, and who stand as the highest types of honesty, intelligence and useful citizenship for the emulation of the youth of our land.--Provided by author in preface. |
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Abraham Lincoln Abridged Ameri American Anarchism army battle become capital century character CHARLES HENRY PARKHurst citizen civilization commerce Constitution courage death deeds duty England fight flag force foreign forget freedom gates of China give glory hand happiness heart highest honor human industrial institutions intellectual interest JOHN DAVIS LONG judgment justice labor land learning legislation less liberal education liberty Lincoln lives LL.D manly means ment mental band mind MINOT JUDSON Savage moral nation nature Navy never patriotism peace Philip Sheridan political President principles progress prosperity Puritan race remember Republic ships side social soldier South spirit stand stars Stephen Girard success teach things THOMAS BRACKETT Reed thought thousand tion to-day trade trained trust truth Union United University victory Washington wealth William McKinley young
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Sayfa 180 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Sayfa 114 - Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life...
Sayfa 113 - Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom ; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill ; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.
Sayfa 130 - Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine ; Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
Sayfa 117 - The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
Sayfa 115 - To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, " Cast down your bucket where you are.
Sayfa 277 - But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual...
Sayfa 115 - Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides. Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labor wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South.
Sayfa 116 - In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Sayfa 131 - The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet...