Letters and AddressesSun Dial Classics, 1908 - 489 strani |
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Alexander Hamilton Alexander Spotswood America appear appointment army assured attention believe Brigadier Britain Bushrod Washington camp cause character circumstances Colonel command conceive conduct consequences consider constitution Conway Cabal dear Marquis Dear Sir declare distress doubt duty effect endeavor enemy expect experience favor feel Fielding Lewis France friends friendship gentlemen give Gouverneur Morris hand happy honor hope inclination interest James McHenry jealousy John Augustine Washington John Parke Custis Joseph Reed justice letter liberty Major-General manner Marquis de Lafayette matter means measures ment military militia mind motives MOUNT VERNON nation necessary necessity never object obliged occasion officers opinion party peace person PHILADELPHIA political present proper propriety reason received regiment render respect sensible sentiments serve sincere soldiers spirit things tion troops truth Union Virginia Washington whole wish
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Stran 396 - itself a frightful despotism.—But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.—The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate
Stran 396 - mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.— It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public administration.—It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms,
Stran 403 - defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.— Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:—neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences;—consulting the natural course of things ;•—- diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing
Stran 389 - it is a main Pillar in the Edifice of your real independence; the support of your tranquility at home; your peace abroad; of your safety: of your prosperity in every shape; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize.—But as
Stran 398 - political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports.—In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens.—The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.—A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public
Stran 401 - many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practise the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure
Stran 393 - there are, who would sever them from their Brethren, and connect them with Aliens?— To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable.—No alliances however strict between the parts can be an adequate substitute.—They must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced.—Sensible of this momentous truth, you have
Stran 402 - you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican Government.-—But that
Stran 394 - minority of the community;—and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common
Stran 397 - despotism.—A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.—The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the Guardian of the Public Weal against invasions by the others,