Horatius Cocles
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July 4, 1986 My fellow Americans: My remarks tonight will be brief, but it’s worth remembering that all the celebration of this day is rooted in history. It’s recorded that shortly after the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia celebrations took place throughout the land, and many of the former Colonists — they were
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To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he
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As Americans, we have been given a splendid gift from the heroic Founders of our country. Their gift was that they established a nation of liberty. Their premiere concern was to shield freedom from the vices of tyranny, and to create laws and rights such that we should always have the tools to vanquish any
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Fellow citizens: I would like to address the question Who is our fellow citizen? Citizenship should bond us in a deep way. But how can you bond with a person whose views are distorted? It is impossible; we must all agree on the fundamental principles that form this country. We shall now examine this question and determine who are
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“Fellow citizens” (I greet you with the words of our heroic president, Abraham Lincoln), think about how Lincoln addressed a whole crowd as his equals. One might be tempted to think, “How could Lincoln address a throng of people as his equals when his intellectual power soared far above that of the common listener?” Surely
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Henry George [A speech delivered in the California Theatre, San Francisco, 4 July, 1877] Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: IT is under circumstances that inspire gratitude and renew patriotism that we celebrate the completion by the American Republic of the first year of her second century. How much that year has held of the possibilities
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