Autor: DiscursosBP
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State of the Union Address
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Circumstances, fellow-citizens, which seriously threatened the peace of our country have made it a duty to convene you at an earlier period than usual. The love of peace so much cherished in the bosoms of our citizens, which has so long guided the proceedings…
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Special Message on Gun-Boats
In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of the 5th instant, I proceed to give such information as is possessed, of the effect of gun-boats in the protection and defense of harbors, of the numbers thought necessary, and of the proposed distribution of them among the ports and…
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Special Message on the Burr Conspiracy
Agreeably to the request of the House of Representatives, communicated in their resolution of the sixteenth instant, I proceed to state under the reserve therein expressed, information received touching an illegal combination of private individuals against the peace and safety of the Union, and a military expedition planned by them against the territories of a…
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Proclama de Coro
Valerosos Compatriotas, y Amigos. Obedeciendo a vuestro llamamiento, y a las repetidas instancias y clamores de la Patria, en cuyo servicio hemos gustosamente consagrado la mejor parte de la vida; hemos desembarcado en esta Provincia de Caracas. La coyuntura y el tiempo nos parecen sumamente favorables para la consecución de vuestros designios; y cuantas personas…
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Address to the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation
MY FRIENDS AND CHILDREN, CHIEFLY OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, Having now finished our business an to mutual satisfaction, I cannot take leave of you without expressing the satisfaction I have received from your visit. I see with my own eyes that the endeavors we have been making to encourage and lead you in the way…
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Austerlitz
Soldats, Je suis content de vous. Vous avez à la journée d’Austerlitz justifié tout ce que j’attendais de votre intrépidité. Vous avez décoré vos aigles d’une immortelle gloire. Une armée de cent mille hommes commandée par les empereurs de Russie et d’Autriche a été en moins de quatre heures ou coupée ou dispersée. Ce qui…
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Juramento en el Monte Sacro
SIMÓN BOLÍVAR ¿Con que este es el pueblo de Rómulo y Numa, de los Gracos y los Horacios, de Augusto y de Nerón, de César y de Bruto, de Tiberio y de Trajano? Aquí todas las grandezas han tenido su tipo y todas las miserias su cuna. Octavio se disfraza con el manto de la…
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Second Inaugural Address
PROCEEDING, fellow-citizens, to that qualification which the Constitution requires before my entrance on the charge again conferred on me, it is my duty to express the deep sense I entertain of this new proof of confidence from my fellow-citizens at large, and the zeal with which it inspires me so to conduct myself as may…
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State of the Union Address
TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES: In calling you together, fellow citizens, at an earlier day than was contemplated by the act of the last session of Congress, I have not been insensible to the personal inconveniences necessarily resulting from an unexpected change in your arrangements. But matters of great…
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First Annual Message
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: It is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me that on meeting the great council of our nation, I am able to announce to them, on the grounds of reasonable certainty, that the wars and troubles which have for so many years afflicted our sister nations…