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Page 66
... five cents on the dollar ! It was not , however , until 1862 that the legislature actually did an act of generosity , in the passage of the homestead law , under which any person could settle upon a portion of the public domain and make ...
... five cents on the dollar ! It was not , however , until 1862 that the legislature actually did an act of generosity , in the passage of the homestead law , under which any person could settle upon a portion of the public domain and make ...
Page 92
... five hun- dred men , women , and children : these one hundred men establish for weal or woe the social and moral condition of that community . Every sensible man must know that crime and drunkenness and all manner of vice ever have and ...
... five hun- dred men , women , and children : these one hundred men establish for weal or woe the social and moral condition of that community . Every sensible man must know that crime and drunkenness and all manner of vice ever have and ...
Page 110
... five cents per week ! " A good mechanic could then earn a bushel of wheat in seven days , a coarse linen shirt in five days and a half , a common waistcoat in seven days , a pair of strong shoes in eight days , a stuff gown for his wife ...
... five cents per week ! " A good mechanic could then earn a bushel of wheat in seven days , a coarse linen shirt in five days and a half , a common waistcoat in seven days , a pair of strong shoes in eight days , a stuff gown for his wife ...
Page 112
... five millions of real - estate owners . This clearly proves that the laboring men in England have reached only the first chapters of the reformation . Progress has made a good beginning there , and a still better one in the United ...
... five millions of real - estate owners . This clearly proves that the laboring men in England have reached only the first chapters of the reformation . Progress has made a good beginning there , and a still better one in the United ...
Page 130
... five hundred years to Christianize him , but they have most signally failed . He is wedded to his idols , and there he will remain . The national legislature should prohibit the impor- tation of Chinese . This nation has had a surfeit ...
... five hundred years to Christianize him , but they have most signally failed . He is wedded to his idols , and there he will remain . The national legislature should prohibit the impor- tation of Chinese . This nation has had a surfeit ...
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Page 32 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore, governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Page 223 - The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
Page 75 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Page 379 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 222 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Page 311 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof,
Page 31 - Any government is free to the people under it, whatever be the frame, where the laws rule and the people are a party to these laws. And more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Page 75 - For the advancement of these ends they have at all times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think proper.
Page 327 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 240 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value to those who possess it and who want to exchange it for some new productions is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.