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e that was tried by a young, struggling attorney. I also remember a young judge who appeared in one of the rural counties, who sat and heard a case very similar to the one to which reference was made, and I remember the fight of the giants before him. Points were raised of momentous importance. They were to affect the ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.561 | 0.85 | ["governance"] | 412 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241732 | [
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on the correctness of an objection and succeeded. He felt so elated over that success he in a short time objected again, and the judge ruled against him, but in his ardor he argued with the court. "Why, I can't conceive why you make this ruling." "Why," the judge says, "I have just ruled with you once, I must rule with... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.876 | ["governance", "communication", "rhetoric"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241764 | [
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ard. She wears on her breast the Ægis of Minerva. On the steps of the throne are the scales of Justice, the book of Law and the white doves of Mercy. On her right are the emblematic figures of Truth, Peace, and Industry, on her left are Fraud, Discord, and Violence. "Law" is a companion piece to "History." "The Lawyer ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.32 | 0.884 | ["governance", "philosophy", "diplomacy", "economy", "social_justice"] | 501 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241789 | [
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nguished lawyer who had a witness upon the stand. He was endeavoring to locate the surroundings of a building in which an accident occurred, and he had put a female witness on the stand. "Now the location of the door: please give it," and she gave it in a timid way. "Will you now kindly give the location of the hall in... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.771 | 0.896 | ["governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241811 | [
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She became a little nervous and she says, "I will tell you the best I can; if you are at the foot of the stairs they run up, and if you are to the top of the stairs they run down." [Laughter.] So sometimes it is pretty important to find out which way the lawyer is going when he enters in politics. He should be tried an... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.898 | ["decision_making", "career", "governance"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241835 | [
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professions and business industries, it seems to me they should have a civil service examination for the lawyer before he enters the realm of politics. A lawyer that I heard of, coming from a county down the [Pg 874] river—a county that has produced distinguished judges who have occupied positions on the Court of Appea... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.599 | 0.732 | ["governance", "career"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241861 | [
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ificent burst of eloquence the case went to the jury. And after the jury retired, he sat, while they deliberated, by his client. And finally the jury came in. The foreman rose and said that "The jury find the defendant not guilty." The distinguished lawyer, in the presence of the crowd and jury, and justice of the peac... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.657 | 0.868 | ["governance", "diplomacy", "social_justice", "philosophy", "rhetoric"] | 466 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241884 | [
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imputation of this heinous crime rests upon you. You may go from this court-room as free as the bird that pinions its wings and flies toward the heavens, to kiss the first ray of the morning sunshine. You may go as free as that bird, but before you go pay me that $3.00 you owe me on account." [Laughter.] What I mean to... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.845 | 0.876 | ["salary", "governance", "war_conflict"] | 446 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241907 | [
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s not a safe man to intrust with political power. Judge Baldwin, of Indiana, it is said, in giving his advice to lawyers upon one occasion, told them that the course to be pursued by a lawyer was first to get on, second to get honor, and third to get honest. [Laughter.] A man who follows that policy in my judgment is n... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.902 | ["governance", "decision_making", "ethics"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241928 | [
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s, first to be honest, second to get on, and third, upon this broad basis, get honor if you can. [Applause.] It is unnecessary for me at this time to refer to the distinguished men who have entered politics from the profession of the law. I could point to those who have occupied the highest positions in the gift of the... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.892 | ["governance", "ethics", "career"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241950 | [
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halls of our various States, and in these important positions have helped formulate the fundamental principles which to-day govern us as a free people, and upon which the ark of our freedom rests. I believe that while in the past opportunities have presented themselves for lawyers in politics, yet no time was ever more... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.806 | 0.71 | ["governance", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 460 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241972 | [
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shape the policies and destinies of our country. We are confronted with new conditions, with new propositions, and it seems to me that the man who is learned in the law, who, as was once said of the great Peel, that his entire course in life, in and out of the profession, was guided by the desire to do right and justic... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.892 | ["career", "governance", "economy", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241995 | [
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red, lawyers are destined to play a leading part. They are very well fitted to appreciate the fundamental principles of a free government and of human liberty. It seems the patriotic duty of the lawyer to give the country the benefit of his study and experience, not as a mere politician, but as a high-minded and learne... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.878 | ["governance", "leadership", "career", "social_justice", "education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242016 | [
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tect the flower of our American policy under our new conditions so that the fruitage of our system may be naturalized in new fields as a correct policy. Duty, therefore, seems to call the lawyer to the councils of State. Our Country is his client, her perpetuity will be his retainer, fee, and compensation. [Applause.] ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.87 | ["salary", "governance", "rhetoric"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242038 | [
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land 1859-1865, at the annual banquet of the Royal Academy, London, May 2, 1863. Sir Charles Eastlake, the President of the Royal Academy, said, in introducing Lord Palmerston: "I now have the honor to propose the health of one who is entitled to the respect and gratitude of the friends of science and art, the promoter... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.725 | 0.852 | ["ethics", "education"] | 451 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242059 | [
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propose the health of Viscount Palmerston."] Mr. President, Your Royal Highnesses, My Lords, and Gentlemen :—I need not, I am certain, assure you that nothing can be more gratifying to the feelings of any man than to receive that compliment which you have been pleased to propose and which this distinguished assembly ha... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.771 | 0.878 | [] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242077 | [
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the greatest interest in the promotion of the fine arts. In fact, without a great cultivation of art no nation has ever arrived at any point of eminence. We have seen great warlike exploits performed by nations in a state, I won't say of comparative barbarism, but wanting comparative civilization; we have seen nations ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.87 | ["war_conflict", "economy", "philosophy"] | 510 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242101 | [
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at national prosperity, and a high cultivation of the arts are all combined together, the nation in which those conditions are found may pride itself on holding that eminent position among the nations of the world which I am proud to say belongs to this country. [Loud cheers.] [Pg 877] It is gratifying to have the hono... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.874 | ["ethics"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242122 | [
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hillips's picture behind the chair], without the trouble of asking an order, without waiting in Westminster Hall until a seat be vacant, without passing hours in a hot gallery listening perhaps to dull discourses in an uninteresting debate—they may here see what kind of thing the House of Commons is, and go back edifie... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.866 | ["ethics", "philosophy", "rhetoric"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242183 | [
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e this virtue to ocular demonstration—don't imagine that that which enters the eye does not sometimes penetrate to the mind and feelings. I will give you an instance to the contrary. I remember within these walls seeing two gentlemen who evidently, from their remarks, were very good judges of horses, looking with the g... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.868 | ["ethics", "philosophy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242205 | [
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ere was a cellar in which the art of the most distinguished sculptors was concealed to the utmost extent of the application of that saying. We have brought them comparatively into light; and if the sculptors will excuse us for having departed from that sage and ancient maxim, I am sure the public will thank us for havi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.888 | ["resume"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242251 | [
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AN'S VIEWS OF THE PURITAN [Speech of Rev. John R. Paxton, D.D., at the seventy-seventh annual dinner of the New England Society in the City of New York, December 22, 1882. Josiah M. Fiske, the President, occupied the chair. Dr. Paxton responded for "The Clergy."] Mr. President and Gentlemen :—There is no help for it, a... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.722 | ["rhetoric"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242294 | [
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h walk about under his huge legs [laughter]; "we must bend our bodies when he doth carelessly nod to us." For the Puritan is the pious Joseph of the land, and to his sheaf all our sheaves must make obeisance. As he pipes unto us so we dance. He takes the chief seat at every national feast and compels us highway-and-hed... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.845 | 0.862 | [] | 454 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.242314 | [
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4] and concise, forcible, and elegant expression. With these exceptions, the speeches presented were delivered during the presidential campaign of 1888, often four or five in a day, to visiting delegations of citizens, representing every occupation and interest, and during his tours of 1890 and 1891, when he often spok... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.599 | 0.87 | ["rhetoric", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256275 | [
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that could be sneered at as weak or commonplace. This fact is all the more noteworthy when we recall the dismal failures that have been made by others under like circumstances. A spirit of exalted patriotism and broad statesmanship is apparent in every line; and notwithstanding the malignity of the partisan assaults th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.842 | ["faith_spirituality"] | 453 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256334 | [
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mor; but while he might soften in tender, playful greeting of children, or live again with his comrades the old life of tent and field, he never for one moment forgot the great principle whose banner he had been chosen to uphold. Protection of American industry was [5] always his foremost thought—and how well he presen... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.643 | 0.85 | ["economy", "family"] | 426 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256414 | [
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liams—"Blue Jeans"—by a plurality of 5,084 votes. In 1878 he was chosen chairman of the Republican State Convention. In 1879 he was appointed by President Hayes a member of the Mississippi River Commission. In 1880 he was chairman of the delegation from Indiana to the National Convention, and with his colleagues cast 3... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.529 | 0.86 | ["ethics", "governance"] | 489 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256485 | [
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the time, and is considered one of his greatest. One expression therein—viz.: "I am a dead statesman, but a living and rejuvenated Republican"—went broadcast over the land and became one of the keynotes of the campaign. Senator Harrison made the first reference of the evening to the name of "Chandler." It was talismani... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.628 | 0.856 | ["governance"] | 478 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256518 | [
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arers with him. The Senator spoke as follows: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Michigan Club —I feel that I am at some disadvantage here to-night by reason of the fact that I did not approach Detroit from the direction of Washington city. I am a dead statesman ["No! No!"]; but I am a living and rejuvenated Republican... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.823 | 0.854 | ["governance", "communication", "philosophy"] | 433 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256551 | [
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f addressing an audience of Michigan Republicans. Your invitations in the past have been frequent and urgent, but I have always felt that you knew how to do your own work, that we could trust the stalwart Republicans of this magnificent State to hold this key of the lakes against all comers. I am not here to-night in t... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.88 | ["governance", "communication", "war_conflict"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256585 | [
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ican principles which your presence here to-night so well attests. I am here rather to be helped myself, to bathe my soul in this high atmosphere of patriotism and pure Republicanism [applause] by spending a little season in the presence of those who loved and honored and followed the Cromwell of the Republican party, ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.862 | ["governance", "ethics", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256613 | [
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lot the only guarantee of the Nation's security and perpetuity"—is one that was supported with a boldness of utterance, with a defiance that was unexcelled by any leader, by Zachariah Chandler always and everywhere. [Applause.] As Republicans we are fortunate, as has been suggested, in the fact that there is nothing in... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.876 | ["leadership", "ethics", "governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256641 | [
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day of any American who honored or defended his country. [Cheers.] We could even unite with our Democratic friends in celebrating the birthday of St. Jackson, because we enter into fellowship with him when we read his story of how by proclamation he put down nullification in South Carolina. [Applause.] We could meet wi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.87 | ["governance", "ethics"] | 508 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256668 | [
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ountry that is out of harmony with Republicanism. [Cheers.] But our Democratic friends are under limitation. They have a short calendar of sense, and they must omit from the history of those whose names are on their calendar the best achievements of their lives. I do not know what the party is preserved for. Its histor... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.806 | 0.862 | ["governance", "war_conflict"] | 459 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256695 | [
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low and moving only by the force that it resists. I want to read a very brief extract from a most notable paper—one that was to-day in the Senate at Washington read from the desk by its presiding officer—the "Farewell Address of Washington;" and while it is true that I cannot quote or find in the writings of Washington... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.728 | ["communication", "governance", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256721 | [
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these things had not come in his day to disturb the administration of the Government, yet in the comprehensiveness of the words he uttered, like the comprehensive declarations of the Holy Book, we may find admonition and guidance, and even with reference to a condition of things that his pure mind could have never cont... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.336 | 0.72 | ["governance", "social_justice"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256747 | [
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ions, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of persons and property." If I had read that to a Democratic meeting they would have suspected that it was an extract from some Republican speech. [Laughter.] My countr... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.884 | ["governance", "social_justice", "rhetoric"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256773 | [
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reet, or all combined, are the country that I love. It is the institution, the form of government, the frame of civil society, for which that flag stands, and which we love to-day. [Applause.] It is what Mr. Lincoln so tersely, yet so felicitously, described as a government of the people, by the people, and for the peo... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.876 | ["governance", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256800 | [
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se it is in all its departments administered by them; for the people, because it states as its object of supreme attainment the happiness, security and peace of the people that dwell under it. [Applause.] The bottom principle—sometimes it is called a corner-stone, sometimes the foundation of our structure of government... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.351 | 0.832 | ["governance", "diplomacy"] | 413 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256822 | [
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. It is more than the corner-stone or foundation. This structure is a monolith, one from foundation to apex, and that monolith stands for and is this principle of government by majorities, legally ascertained by constitutional methods. Everything else about our government is appendage, it is ornamentation. This is the ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.376 | 0.864 | ["governance", "war_conflict", "philosophy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256843 | [
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ct security the Constitution was formed; for this the War of the Rebellion was fought; and when this principle perishes the structure which Washington and his compatriots reared is dishonored in the dust. The equality of the ballot demands that our apportionments in the States for legislative and congressional purposes... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.335 | 0.728 | ["governance", "social_justice", "ethics", "war_conflict", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256866 | [
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one man counts two or one and a half and some other man counts only one half. But some one says that is fundamental. All men accept this truth. Not quite. My countrymen, we are confronted by this condition of things in America to-day; a government by the majority, expressed by an equal and a free ballot, is not only th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.824 | 0.86 | ["governance", "philosophy"] | 443 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256888 | [
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f their influence in choosing representatives at Washington. But some timid soul is alarmed at the suggestion. He says we are endeavoring to rake over the coals of an extinct strife, to see if we may not find some ember in which there is yet sufficient vitality to rekindle the strife. Some man says you are actuated by ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.88 | ["war_conflict", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"] | 506 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256931 | [
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hets and that talk never have any terrors for me. [13] [Applause.] I do not want to fight the war over again, and I am sure no Northern soldier—and there must be many here of those gallant Michigan regiments, some of which I had the pleasure during the war of seeing in action—not one of these that wishes to renew that ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.825 | 0.872 | ["war_conflict", "governance"] | 454 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256952 | [
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ho listen to me to-night wishes ill to the South. If it were left to us here to-night the streams of her prosperity would be full. We would gladly hear of her reviving and stimulated industry. We gladly hear of increasing wealth in those States of the South. We wish them to share in the onward and upward movement of a ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.83 | 0.898 | ["war_conflict", "economy"] | 501 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256975 | [
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ut to-night. It is what they have been since '65. It is what they did in '84, when a President was to be chosen for this country. Our controversy is not one of the past; it is of the present. It has relation to that which will be done next November, when our people are again called to choose a President. What is it we ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.9 | ["war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.256996 | [
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f Northern Virginia, when those who had for four years confronted us in battle stacked arms in total surrender, the terms were simply these: "You shall go to your homes and shall be there unmolested so long as you obey the laws in force where you reside." That is the sum of our demand. We ask nothing more of the South ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.88 | ["governance", "war_conflict", "family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257017 | [
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who equally with themselves under the Constitution are entitled to vote—that and nothing more. I do not need to enter into details. The truth to-day is that the colored Republican vote of the South, and with it and by consequence the white Republican vote of the South, is deprived of all effective influence in the admi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.876 | ["governance", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257053 | [
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more than enough to turn the last election for President, and more than enough to reverse—yes, largely more than reverse—the present Democratic majority of the House of Representatives. Have we not the spirit to insist that everywhere north and south in this country of ours no man shall be deprived of his ballot by rea... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.379 | 0.872 | ["war_conflict", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"] | 491 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257081 | [
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d the fullest exercise of the elective franchise. Shall we not insist that what is true of those who [14] fought to destroy the country shall be true of every man who fought for it, or loved it, like the black man of the South did [applause]—that to belong to Abraham Lincoln's party shall be respectable and reputable e... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.639 | 0.888 | ["governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257104 | [
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can vote suppressed in the South, but I ask you to turn your eyes to as fair and prosperous a territory as ever sat at the door of the Federal Union asking admission to the sisterhood of the States. See yonder in the northwest Dakota, the child of all these States, with 500,000 loyal, intelligent, law-abiding, prospero... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.621 | 0.872 | ["governance"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257126 | [
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ies seeking admission is insolently closed in her face—and why? Simply because the predominating sentiment in the Territory of Dakota is Republican—that and nothing more. And that is not all. This question of a free, honest ballot has crossed the Ohio River. The overspill of these Southern frauds has reached Ohio and I... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.355 | 0.868 | ["governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257148 | [
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hing out into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in its attempt by frauds upon the ballot-box to possess the Senate of the United States. Go down to Cincinnati in a recent election and look at the election returns, shamelessly, scandalously manipulated to return members to the Senate and House of Ohio, in order that that grand... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.87 | ["governance", "war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257171 | [
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evised, executed in furtherance of the same iniquitous scheme, intended to defeat the re-election of that gallant soldier, that fearless defender of Republican principles, John A. Logan of Illinois. [Great cheering.] And these people have even invaded Indiana. At the last election in my own State, first by gerrymander,... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.868 | ["governance", "war_conflict", "social_justice"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257194 | [
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0 on joint ballot; and Indiana gave a Republican majority on members of the Legislature of 10,000, and yet they claim to hold the Legislature. And that is not all. Then, when gerrymander had failed, they introduced the eraser to help it out [laughter]; scratched our tally-sheets, shamelessly transferred ballots from Re... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.622 | 0.836 | ["governance", "interview"] | 419 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257215 | [
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g to deal with these fellows? What is the remedy? As to the Southern aspect of this question, I have first to suggest that it is in the power of the free people of [15] the North, those who love the Constitution and a free and equal ballot, those who, while claiming this high privilege for themselves, will deny it to n... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.609 | 0.884 | ["governance"] | 495 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257237 | [
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t the ballot [applause]; that will be great gain. And then we should aim to place in the Southern States, in every office exercising federal authority, men whose local influence will be against these frauds, instead of such men as the district attorney appointed by Mr. Cleveland, who in this recent outrage upon the bal... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.4 | 0.866 | ["governance", "war_conflict"] | 500 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257259 | [
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ans of that city were warned away from the polls. Then again we shall keep ourselves free from all partisanship if we lift our voice steadily and constantly in protest against these offences. There is vast power in a protest. Public opinion is the most potent monarch this world knows to-day. Czars tremble in its presen... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.848 | 0.868 | ["war_conflict"] | 477 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257280 | [
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that will do a great deal towards correcting it. Why, my countrymen, we meet now and then with these Irish-Americans and lift our voices in denunciations of the wrongs which England is perpetrating upon Ireland. [Applause.] We do not elect any Members of Parliament, but the voice of free America protesting against thes... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.828 | 0.854 | ["governance", "war_conflict"] | 476 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257302 | [
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olicy of William E. Gladstone and his associates. [Great applause.] Cannot we do as much for oppressed Americans? Can we not make our appeal to these Irish-American citizens who appeal to us in behalf of their oppressed fellow-countrymen to rally with us in this crusade against election frauds and intimidation in the c... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.87 | ["governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257324 | [
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he national Congress and have an executive at Washington who has not been created by these crimes against the ballot. [Applause.] Whatever they are, we will seek them out and put them into force—not in a spirit of enmity against the men who fought against us—forgetting the war, but only insisting that now, nearly a qua... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.648 | 0.868 | ["governance", "war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 482 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257346 | [
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have been rehabilitated with a full citizenship. [Applause.] Every question waits the settlement of this. The tariff question would be settled already if the 1,000,000 of black [16] laborers in the South had their due representation in the House of Representatives. And my soldier friends, interested that liberal provis... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.621 | 0.86 | ["war_conflict", "communication", "strategy", "economy"] | 510 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257368 | [
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use of Representatives of the power and influence of those faithful black men in the South who were always their friends? [Applause.] The dependent pension bill would pass over the President's veto if these black friends of the Union soldier had their fair representation in Congress. [Applause.] It is the dominant ques... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.866 | ["governance", "communication", "war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257391 | [
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r tribunal to which every question shall be submitted for arbitrament and final determination. Therefore, I would here, as we shall in Indiana, lift up our protest against these wrongs which are committed in the name of democracy, lift high our demand, and utter it with resolution, that it shall no longer be true that ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.829 | 0.866 | ["governance"] | 491 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257413 | [
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nt Tracy of the State League of Republican Clubs. Amid hearty applause General Harrison rose to respond to the toast, "The Republican Party." He spoke as follows: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Marquette Club —I am under an obligation that I shall not soon forget in having been permitted by your courtesy to sit at ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.825 | 0.858 | ["governance"] | 447 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257458 | [
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the lips of those speakers who have preceded me. I count it a privilege to spend an evening with so many young Republicans. There seems to be a fitness in the association of young men with the Republican party. The Republican party is a young party. I have not yet begun to call myself an old man, and yet there is no ol... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.888 | ["governance", "interview"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257479 | [
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rty, and I have supported with enthusiasm every successor of Frémont, including that matchless statesman who claimed our suffrages in 1884. We cannot match ages with the Democratic party any more than that party can match achievements with us. It has lived longer, but to less purpose. "Moss-backed" cannot be predicated... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.868 | ["governance", "social_justice"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257501 | [
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y; and yet when I hear a Democrat boasting himself of the age of his [18] party I feel like reminding him that there are other organized evils in the world, older than the Democratic party. "The Republican party," the toast which you have assigned to me to-night, seems to have a past, a present and a future tense to it... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.827 | 0.874 | ["governance"] | 465 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257522 | [
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dy fields of Kansas, Republicans died for their creed, and since then we have put in that book the sacred memory of our immortal leader who has been mentioned here to-night—Abraham Lincoln—who died for his faith and devotion to the principles of human liberty and constitutional union. And there have followed it a great... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.822 | 0.7 | ["governance", "faith_spirituality", "leadership", "war_conflict", "social_justice"] | 424 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257546 | [
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hey adhered to the political creed that we loved. It is the only party in this land which in the past has been proscribed and persecuted to death for its allegiance to the principles of human liberty. After Lincoln had triumphed in that great forum of debate in his contest with Douglas, the Republican party carried tha... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.376 | 0.856 | ["social_justice", "governance", "war_conflict"] | 457 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257568 | [
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extend recognition, and even armed intervention. There was scarcely a higher achievement in the long history of brilliant statesmanship which stands to the credit of our party than the matchless management of our diplomatic relations during the period of our war; dignified, yet reserved, masterful, yet patient. Those e... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.802 | 0.828 | ["diplomacy", "management", "governance", "war_conflict", "social_justice"] | 422 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257590 | [
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t, Chase, Seward, and Lincoln over all, and each a victor in his own sphere. When 500,000 veterans found themselves without any pressing engagement, and Phil Sheridan sauntered down towards the borders of Mexico, French evacuation was expedited, and when Gen. Grant advised the English Government that our claims for the... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.874 | ["war_conflict", "governance", "economy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257611 | [
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not in a hurry about it—we could wait, but in the mean time interest would accumulate—the Geneva arbitration was accepted and compensation made for these unfriendly invasions of our rights. It became fashionable again at the tables of the English nobility to speak of our common ancestry and our common tongue. Then agai... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.876 | ["salary", "social_justice"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257631 | [
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ommon tongue and ancient friendships would do in the time of our distress. And [20] we must not forget that it is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues. Though no financial secretary ever had laid upon him a heavier burden than was placed upon Salmon P. Chase to provide the enormous expen... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.807 | 0.858 | ["war_conflict"] | 474 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257652 | [
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al Treasury called for the highest statesmanship. And it was found, and our credit was not only maintained through the war, but the debt that was accumulated, which our Democratic friends said could never be paid, we at once began to discharge when the army was disbanded. And so it is that in this timely effort—consist... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.882 | ["leadership", "war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257675 | [
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es with brave men that, under the leadership of Grant and Sherman and Thomas, suppressed the rebellion, and under the wise, magnificent system of our revenue enabled us to defray our expenses, and under the sagacious administration of our State Department held Europe at bay while we were attending to the business at ho... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.712 | ["leadership", "governance", "family"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257697 | [
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ave ever been presented to American statesmanship for solution. We must not forget that in dealing with these questions we were met continually by the protest and opposition of the Democratic party. The war against the States was unconstitutional. There was no right to coerce sovereign States. The war was a failure, an... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.843 | 0.686 | ["governance", "war_conflict", "ethics", "diplomacy"] | 429 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257721 | [
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illegal. The constitutional amendments were void. And so through this whole brilliant history of achievement in this administration we were followed by the Democratic statesman protesting against every step and throwing every impediment in the way of National success until it seemed to be true of many of their leaders ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.354 | 0.84 | ["governance", "leadership"] | 438 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257743 | [
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did not conduce to the success of the rebellion. Now, what conclusion shall we draw? Is there anything in this story, so briefly and imperfectly told, to suggest any conclusion as to the inadequacy or incompetency of the Republican party to deal with any question that is now presented for solution or that we may meet i... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.652 | 0.842 | ["governance"] | 416 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257764 | [
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ountrymen, these problems in government were new. We took the ship of state when there was treachery at the helm, when there was mutiny on the deck, when the ship was among the rocks, and we put loyalty at the helm; we brought the deck into order and sub [21] jection. We have brought the ship into the wide and open sea... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.886 | ["governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257786 | [
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ship in the frequented roadways of ordinary commerce? What is there now before us that presents itself for solution? What questions are we to grapple with? What unfinished work remains to be done? It seems to me that the work that is unfinished is to make that constitutional grant of citizenship, the franchise to the c... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.62 | 0.868 | ["governance", "economy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257810 | [
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ty—that whenever the people become convinced that an administration or a law does not represent the will of the majority of our qualified electors, then that administration ceases to challenge the respect of our people and that law ceases to command their willing obedience. This is a republican government, a government... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.604 | 0.692 | ["governance", "crisis"] | 438 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257832 | [
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ch elector expressing his will at the ballot-box. I know of no reason why any law should bind my conscience that does not have this sanction behind it. I know of no reason why I should yield respect to any executive officer whose title is not based upon a majority vote of the qualified electors of this country. What is... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.828 | 0.87 | ["governance", "philosophy"] | 476 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257854 | [
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ions in many of those States have become a farce. In the last congressional election in the State of Alabama there were several congressional districts where the entire vote for members of Congress did not reach 2,000; whereas in most of the districts of the North the vote cast at our congressional elections goes from ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.58 | 0.884 | ["governance"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257876 | [
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der our Constitution, but it does not seem to me to be an adequate answer. It does not seem to me to be conclusive against the agitation of the question even if we should be compelled to respond to the arrogant question that is asked us: "What are you going to do about it?" Even if we should be compelled to answer: "We... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.898 | ["governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257919 | [
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protest; that we should at least denounce the wrong; that we should at least deprive the perpetrators of it of what we used to call the usufructs of the crime? If you cannot prevent a burglar from breaking into your house you will do a great deal towards discouraging burglary if you prevent him from carrying off anythi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.734 | ["war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257943 | [
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ion that those who perpetrate these wrongs against popular suffrage shall not by means of those wrongs seat a President in Washington to secure the Federal patronage in a State, we shall have done much to bring this wrong to an end. But at least while we are protesting by representatives from our State Department at Wa... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.724 | ["social_justice"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257965 | [
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ed upon Ireland, shall we not at least in reference to this gigantic and intolerable wrong in our own country, as a party, lift up a stalwart and determined protest against it? But some of these independent journalists, about which our friend MacMillan talked, call this the "bloody shirt." They say we are trying to rev... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.888 | ["war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.257986 | [
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the South for what took place between 1861 and 1865. I am willing to forget that they were rebels, at least as soon as they are willing to forget it themselves, and that time does not seem to have come yet to them. But our complaint is against what was done in 1884, not against what was done during the war. Our complai... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.806 | 0.88 | ["war_conflict"] | 465 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258007 | [
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irt—though that cry never had any terrors for me. I believe we greatly underestimate the importance of bringing the issue to the front, and with that oft-time Republican courage and outspoken fidelity to truth denouncing it the land over. If we cannot do anything else we can either make these people ashamed of this out... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44682/44682-h/44682-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Charles Hedges. | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.878 | ["governance", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.258030 | [
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