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- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence)
union will be the solid foundation of lasting peace: It will secure your religion, liberty, and property; remove the animosities amongst yourselves, and the jealousies and differences betwixt … each of these confederacies for a long succession of years. Whenever, and from whatever causes, it might happen, and happen it would, that any one of these nations or confederacies
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence
very accurate knowledge on that head. That they were individually interested in the public liberty and prosperity, and therefore that it was not less their inclination than their duty … thought right on this subject, and that their universal and uniform attachment to the cause of the Union rests on great and weighty reasons, which I shall endeavor to develop
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012General Introduction
astray by preconceived jealousies and fears. So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions … offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Korematsu v. United States
Evans, William Draper Lewis, and Thomas Raeburn White on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, as amici curiae, in support of petitioner. Messrs. Robert W. Kenney, Attorney General … Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, and the importance of the constitutional question involved caused us to grant certiorari. It should be noted, to begin with, that all legal restrictions which
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Four Freedoms
would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted … away from our Hemisphere. By this support, we express our determination that the democratic cause shall prevail; and we strengthen the defense and the security of our own nation. Third
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012“We Shall Fight on the Beaches”
always so ready to be led to the trampling down in other lands of liberties and comforts which they have never known in their own. I have said this armored … thousands of armored vehicles. May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012National Labor Relations Act
commerce, or the prices of such materials or goods in commerce; or (d) causing diminution of employment and wages in such volume as substantially to impair or disrupt the market … bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual liberty of contract and employers who are organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012National Industrial Recovery Act
endanger the maintenance of any code or agreement under this title, the President may cause an immediate investigation to be made by the United States Tariff Commission, which shall give … Treasury is authorized to borrow, from time to time, under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, such amounts as may be necessary to meet the expenditures authorized by this
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Address to the Jury
political offender to his act. To condemn him means to be blind to the causes which make him. I can no more do it, nor have I the right … mankind must rest as the ultimate base of our existence and our liberty.” The righteous passion for justice which can never express itself in human slaughter — that is the force
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Texas v. Johnson
burning of an American flag “‘is an act having a high likelihood to cause a breach of the peace,’” Brief for Petitioner 31, quoting Sutherland v. DeWulf, 323 F. Supp … with such symbols as pine trees, beavers, anchors, and rattlesnakes, bearing slogans such as “Liberty or Death,” “Hope,” “An Appeal to Heaven,” and “Don’t Tread on Me.” The first
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that … would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address
helped preserve peace in a troubled world; when Americans courageously supported the struggle for liberty, self-government, and free enterprise throughout the world, and turned the tide of history away … came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause. Two of our Founding Fathers, a Boston lawyer named Adams and a Virginia planter named
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Ronald Reagan’s Remarks at Pointe du Hoc on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day
history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations … liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt. You all knew that some things are worth
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Evil Empire
that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected. You may remember that when abortion … publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution. I think I should point out I was only quoting Lenin
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address
united people pledged to maintaining a political system which guarantees individual liberty to a greater degree than any other, and I thank you and your people for all your help … lives of millions of our people. Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity. Those who do work are denied a fair return for their
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Ronald Reagan’s Acceptance Speech to the 1980 Republican National Convention
virtues that our legacy as a free people and with the vigilance that sustains liberty, we still have time to use our renewed compact to overcome the injuries that have … problems of abstract economic theory. Those are problems of flesh and blood; problems that cause pain and destroy the moral fiber of real people who should not suffer the further
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012United States v. Nixon
briefs for the United States in both cases. James D. St. Clair argued the cause for the President [418 U.S. 683, 686] in both cases. With him on the briefs … Norman Dorsen and Melvin L Wulf filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union as amicus curiae urging affirmance of the District Court judgment. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Miranda v. Arizona
Virgin Islands. Duane R. Nedrud, by special leave of Court, argued the cause for the National District Attorneys Association, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance … Bradley, Peter Hearn and Melvin L. Wulf filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, in all cases. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Barry Goldwater’s Acceptance Speech for the GOP Presidential Nomination
true. We must, and we shall, set the tide running again in the cause of freedom. And this party, with its every action, every word, every breath, and every heartbeat … free our people and light the way for liberty throughout the world. Ours is a very human cause for very humane goals. This party, its good people, and its unquestionable
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Douglas MacArthur’s Farewell Speech to West Point
when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence … belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom. He belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements