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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... Fifty-Four Forty or Fight --William Allen: Fifty-four forty or fight! (54 40 'N.)--From a speech on the Oregon Boundary Question, United States Senate, 1S44. Fire Bells as Disturbers of the Peace--Edmund Burke: Where there is abuse, there ought to be clamor; because it is better to have our slumber broken by the fire bell than to perish, amidst the flames, in our bed. Fitness for Self-Government--T. B. Macaulay: Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are lit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, thcy may, indeed, wait forever. Flood, Henry--On Grattan: A mendicant patriot, subsisting upon the public accounts, --who, bought by his country for a sum of money, then sold his country for prompt payment. Foreign War and Domestic Despotism--Jeremiah Clemens: The Senator from Michigan was right when he said that our fears were to be found at home. I do fear ourselves. Commit our people once to unnecessary foreign wars, --let victory encourage the military spirit, already too prevalent among them, --and Roman history will have no chapter bloody enough to be transmitted to posterity side by side with ours. In a brief period we shall have reenacted, on a grander scale, the same scenes which marked her decline. The veteran soldier, who has followed a victorious leader from clime to clime, will forget his love of country in his love for his commander; and the bayonets you send abroad to conquer a kingdom will be brought back to destroy the rights of the citizen, and prop the throne of an Emperor. Fr...

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