Beers&Politics

Categoría: Discursos

  • Speech against Clay’s Compromise Measures

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    I have, senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention of both the two great parties which divided the country to adopt some…

  • His Own Compromise Measures

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    Was there ever a nation upon which the sun of heaven has shone which has exhibited so much of prosperity as our own? At the commencement of this government, our population amounted to about four millions. It has now reached upwards of twenty millions. Our territory was limited chiefly and principally to that bordering upon…

  • Détruire la misère

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    Je ne suis pas, messieurs, de ceux qui croient qu’on peut supprimer la souffrance en ce monde ; la souffrance est une loi divine ; mais je suis de ceux qui pensent et qui affirment qu’on peut détruire la misère. Remarquez-le bien, messieurs, je ne dis pas diminuer, amoindrir, limiter, circonscrire, je dis détruire. Les…

  • Discurso de Oaxaca

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    Señores diputados y senadores: La reunión del Cuerpo Legislativo ha sido siempre un acontecimiento importante que los pueblos han celebrado con entusiasmo, porque poniéndose en ejercicio la facultad de dar la ley, como está la de ejecutarla, la sociedad se resigna a sobrellevar el peso de sus males, alentada por la esperanza de que tendrán…

  • First Inaugural Adress

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    ELECTED by the American people to the highest office known to our laws, I appear here to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, and, in compliance with a time-honored custom, to address those who are now assembled. 1 The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate…

  • Defensa de la moral religiosa

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    El principio de su señoría, bien analizado su discurso es el siguiente: en la política interior, la legalidad; todo por la legalidad; todo para la legalidad..; y yo, señores, que creo que las leyes se han hecho para las sociedades y no las sociedades para las leyes digo: la sociedad, todo para la sociedad, todo…

  • The Oregon Bill

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    If he should possess a philosophical turn of mind, and be disposed to look to more remote and recondite causes, he will trace it to a proposition which originated in a hypothetical truism, but which, as now expressed and now understood, is the most false and dangerous of all political errors. The proposition to which…

  • Conquest of Mexico

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    «RESOLVED, That to conquer Mexico and to hold it, either as a province or to incorporate it into the Union, would be inconsistent with the avowed object for which the war has been prosecuted; a departure from the settled policy of the Government; in conflict with its character and genius; and in the end subversive…

  • Ritiro delle truppe pontificie dalla guerra contro l’Austria

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    Più volte, o venerabili fratelli, noi abbiamo detestato nel nostro consesso l’audacia di alcuni che non avevano dubitato di rivolgere ingiurie a Noi, e perciò a questa Apostolica Sede, dicendo falsamente che Noi abbiamo deviato, e non in un solo punto, dai santissimi istituti dei nostri predecessori e (orribile a dirsi!) dalla dottrina medesima della…

  • The Annexation of Cracow

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    The hon. member for Montrose [Mr. Joseph Hume] having made his motion, I shall, without entering on the general argument which has been stated by him and by my noble friend opposite, shortly state to the House the view which I take of the motion which he has made. With respect to the argument which…