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Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Address to the Jury
accept the property for one of the defendants, Alexander Berkman, thus breaking every right guaranteed even to the most heinous criminal. Finally the third act, played by the Government … social evils and of our social difficulties. As a student of social wrongs it is my aim to diagnose a wrong. To simply condemn the man who has committed
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Fundamental Principle of a Republic
ballot. If woman’s suffrage is wrong, it is a great wrong; if it is right, it is a profound and fundamental principle, and we all know, if we know … again, no one could blame you for anything that went wrong with the town, if it did not run right, all you would have to say is, you have
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Texas v. Johnson
required to say that a Bill of Rights which guards the individual’s right to speak his own mind, left it open to public authorities to compel him to utter … feel differently about these matters. It is to persuade them that they are wrong. “To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Evil Empire
humanitarian work. And I would be especially remiss if I didn’t discharge right now one personal debt of gratitude. Thank you for your prayers. Nancy and I have felt … arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. I ask you to resist the attempts of those
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
“Vietnamization”
that President Johnson’s decision to send American combat forces to South Vietnam was wrong. And many others — I among them — have been strongly critical … forth by the other side. -We have declared that anything is negotiable except the right of the people of South Vietnam to determine their own future. At the Paris peace
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Miranda v. Arizona
right to remain silent or the right to counsel. There the defendant had answered questions posed by a Commissioner, who had failed to advise him of his rights … only if the accused is also warned of his right to counsel and waives both that right and the right against self-incrimination that the inherent compulsiveness of interrogation disappears
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Barry Goldwater’s Acceptance Speech for the GOP Presidential Nomination
mere political mistakes. We see this as the result of a fundamentally and absolutely wrong view of man, his nature and his destiny. Those who seek to live your lives … gentlemen, of equality. Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Douglas MacArthur’s Farewell Speech to West Point
mankind. Its requirements are for the things that are right, and its restraints are from the things that are wrong. The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice … have defended, guarded and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice. Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government. Whether
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address
their fellow citizens everywhere. Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby … establishes, beyond debate, those gifts of the Creator that are man’s inalienable rights, and that make all men equal in His sight. In the light of this equality
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
section of our country believes slavery is RIGHT, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is WRONG, and ought not to be extended. This is the only … Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their CONSTITUTIONAL right of amending it, or their REVOLUTIONARY right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
purpose not to submit to the rule of the authors of all these wrongs and injuries, have by a large majority committed the Government of the United States into their … North and the conflict began. Northern anti-slavery men of all parties asserted the right to exclude slavery from the territory by Congressional legislation and demanded the prompt and efficient
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The New Nationalism
suffered wrong from a stronger power. Of conservation I shall speak more at length elsewhere. Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty … have been pushing their claims too far. The man who wrongly holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Theodore Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address
acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights. But justice and generosity in a nation, as in an individual, count most when shown … wronged ourselves. We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
On American Motherhood
tamely submits to wrongful aggression. No wrong-doing is so abhorrent as wrong-doing by a man toward the wife and the children who should arouse every tender feeling … life they will surely need. Some children will go wrong in spite of the best training; and some will go right even when their surroundings are most unfortunate; nevertheless
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
There is as yet no judicial way of enforcing a right in international law. When one nation wrongs another or wrongs many others, there is no tribunal before which … international obligations and with keenest and most generous appreciation of the difference between right and wrong, to disarm. If the great civilized nations of the present day should completely disarm
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Against Imperialism
principles of government. This is a complacent philosophy. It obliterates the distinction between right and wrong and makes individuals and nations the helpless victims of circumstance. Destiny is the subterfuge … evident propositions that all men are created equal; that they are endowed with inalienable rights; that governments are instituted among men to secure these rights, and that governments derive their
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Strenuous Life
timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities … most brilliant and formidable fighting navies in the entire world. We rightly pay all honor to the men controlling the navy at the time it won these great deeds, honor
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Plessy v. Ferguson
than those that will surely come from state legislation regulating the enjoyment of civil rights upon the basis of race. We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above … passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead any one, nor atone for the wrong this day done. The result of the whole matter is that while this court has frequently
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Memorial Day Address
their neighbors should agree with them? I think not: I think the feeling was right — in the South as in the North. I think that, as life is action … another hundred years of peaceful life could be. But even if I am wrong, even if those who come after us are to forget all that we hold dear
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Treaty of Fort Laramie
person for the loss sustained. If bad men among the Indians shall commit a wrong or depredation upon the person or property of nay one, white, black, or Indian, subject … said Indians, and henceforth they will and do hereby relinquish all claims or right in and to any portion of the United States or Territories, except such as is embraced