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Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Statement on the Cuban Missile Crisis
your deep attachment to your fatherland, as one who shares your aspirations for liberty and justice for all. And I have watched and the American people have watched with deep … wellbeing. They can only undermine it. But this country has no wish to cause you to suffer or to impose any system upon you. We know that your lives
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
John F. Kennedy’s Address to Southern Baptist Leaders
then that we might have a “divided loyalty,” that we did “not believe in liberty or that we belonged to a disloyal group that threatened “the freedoms for which … outside religious pressure or dictate. And no power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise. But if the time should ever come — and I do not concede
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address
each of our free citizens and of every free citizen everywhere to place the cause of his country before the comfort, the convenience of himself. (4) Honoring the identity … more energy and more productivity, on the farm and in the factory. Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible — from the sanctity
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Wade-Davis Bill
government as aforesaid, the provisional governor shall, under such regulations as he may prescribe, cause to be assessed, levied, and collected, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four … forever free. And if any such persons or their posterity shall be restrained of liberty, under pretence of any claim to such service or labor, the courts of the United
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
given, will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause — as cheerfully to one section as to another. There is much controversy about the delivering … kept? Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery … henceforth will seek new safeguards for our liberty, equality, security, and tranquillity. [Approved, Tuesday, January 29, 1861] A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Lynching: A National Crime
color line. Why is mob murder permitted by a Christian nation? What is the cause of this awful slaughter? This question is answered almost daily: always the same shameless falsehood … punish crime promptly, impartially, and by due process of law, also to make life, liberty, and property secure against mob rule. Time was when lynching appeared to be sectional
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
there is conflict between the two, then our fealty is due first to the cause of righteousness. Unrighteous wars are common, and unrighteous peace is rare; but both should … unintelligent to exercise it. The eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty must be exercised, sometimes to guard against outside foes; although of course far more often to guard
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Strenuous Life
share in the glory of Manila, in the honor of Santiago. They have no cause to feel proud of the valor of our sea-captains, of the renown … that a nation of seventy millions of freemen is in danger of losing its liberties from the existence of an army of one hundred thousand men, three fourths of whom
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Plessy v. Ferguson
further order that the record of the proceedings had in the criminal cause be certified and transmitted to the supreme court. To this order the respondent made answer, transmitting … race onerous disabilities and burdens, and curtailing their rights in the pursuit of life, liberty, and property to such an extent that their freedom was of little value; and that
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
evident sectional tendencies of the South by national dispositions and tendencies. It must cause national ideas and objects to take the lead and control the politics of those States … chasm between North and South, so that our country may have a common liberty and a common civilization. The new wine must be put into new bottles. The lamb
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Ex parte Milligan
true, republican government is a failure, and there is an end of liberty regulated by law. Martial law, established on such a basis, destroys every guarantee of the Constitution … they assigned it to the world as one of the causes which impelled them to declare their independence. Civil liberty and this kind of martial law cannot endure together
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Speech to Officers at Newburgh
unavailing and improper. But as I was among the first who embarked in the cause of our common Country. As I have never left your side one moment, but when … recommend moderate measures and longer forbearance, I spurn it, as every Man, who regards liberty, and reveres that justice for which we contend, undoubtedly must
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Treaty of Alliance with France
England, his Majesty and the said united States, shall make it a common cause, and aid each other mutually with their good Offices, their Counsels, and their forces, according … essential and direct End of the present defensive alliance is to maintain effectually the liberty, Sovereignty, and independance absolute and unlimited of the said united States, as well in Matters
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
General Orders
infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate … encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. The General recommends
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
respect to the rest of the world, to make known the justice of our cause. Our forefathers, inhabitants of the island of Great-Britain, left their native land, to seek … admonition, that our attachment to no nation upon earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. — This, we flattered ourselves, was the ultimate step of the controversy: but subsequent events have
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
In Opposition to Writs of Assistance
regard to the liberties of the subject. And I take this opportunity to declare that, whether under a fee or not (for in such a cause as this I despise … argue this cause from the same principle; and I argue it with the greater pleasure, as it is in favor of British liberty, at a time when we hear
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
George Washington’s Rules of Civility
without occasion; deride no man’s misfortune though there seem to be some cause. 65 Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give … words. 86 In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as not to give liberty to one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Defense of John Peter Zenger
given the Court the trouble of hearing anything that I could say in this cause. I own that when I read the information I had not the art to find … Attorney has produced for authorities to support this cause, was long ago laid aside as the most dangerous Court to the liberties of the people of England that ever
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Connecticut Colony Charter
ever hereafter have a Comon Seale to serve and vse for all Causes, matters, things and affaires, whatsoever of them and their Successors, and the same Seale to alter, change … goeing thither or returneing from thence, shall have and enjoye all liberties and immunities of free and naturall Subjects within any the Dominions of vs, our heires or Successors