THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Volum 12American stationers' Company; J. B. Russell, 1837 |
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Side 26
... desire you to be assured , that all my zeal will continue to second those further efforts for the public good , which are insured by the spirit in which you are entering on the present session . GEORGE WASHINGTON . REPLY TO THE ANSWER ...
... desire you to be assured , that all my zeal will continue to second those further efforts for the public good , which are insured by the spirit in which you are entering on the present session . GEORGE WASHINGTON . REPLY TO THE ANSWER ...
Side 27
... desire to procure tranquillity to the frontiers , to stop the further effusion of blood , to arrest the progress of expense , to forward the prevalent wish of the nation for peace , has led to strenuous efforts through various channels ...
... desire to procure tranquillity to the frontiers , to stop the further effusion of blood , to arrest the progress of expense , to forward the prevalent wish of the nation for peace , has led to strenuous efforts through various channels ...
Side 38
... desire to avoid insult , we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace , one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity , it must be known , that we are at all times ready for war . The documents , which will ...
... desire to avoid insult , we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace , one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity , it must be known , that we are at all times ready for war . The documents , which will ...
Side 52
... desire also to remove the discontents of the Six Nations , a settlement , meditated at Presque Isle , on Lake Erie , has been suspended ; and an agent is now endeavouring to rectify any misconception into which they may have fallen ...
... desire also to remove the discontents of the Six Nations , a settlement , meditated at Presque Isle , on Lake Erie , has been suspended ; and an agent is now endeavouring to rectify any misconception into which they may have fallen ...
Side 93
... desire of the court of Lisbon in the article of grade . I am aware that the conse- quences will not end here , and that this is not the only instance in which a like change may be press- ed . But , should it be necessary to yield ...
... desire of the court of Lisbon in the article of grade . I am aware that the conse- quences will not end here , and that this is not the only instance in which a like change may be press- ed . But , should it be necessary to yield ...
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Side 226 - Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its...
Side 226 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way, which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for, though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Side 224 - I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. — Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.
Side 222 - To the efficacy and permanency of Your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable.
Side 231 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Side 223 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Side 3 - Hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most governments...
Side 1 - ... flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust...
Side 133 - In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Side 228 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.