America has already formed treaties with no less than six foreign
nations, and all of them, except Prussia, are maritime, and therefore able to annoy and injure us.
The complaints of the merchants kindled a violent flame throughout the
nation, which soon after broke out in the House of Commons, and was communicated from that body to the ministry.
that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the
nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all
nations.
I couldn't have felt really and satisfactorily fine and proud and set-up over any title except one that should come from the
nation itself, the only legitimate source; and such an one I hoped to win; and in the course of years of honest and honorable endeavor, I did win it and did wear it with a high and clean pride.
A
nation has a right to argue, remonstrate, implore, and present the cause of its race,--which an individual has not.
The only adequate way to arrive at the value of the telephone is to consider the
nation as a whole, to take it all in all as a going concern, and to note that such a
nation would be absolutely impossible without its telephone service.
As for us, who were to go by Zeila, we had still greater difficulties to struggle with: we were entirely strangers to the ways we were to take, to the manners, and even to the names of the
nations through which we were to pass.
It was remarked, on a former occasion, that the want of this pretext had saved the liberties of one
nation in Europe.
Finally, to those
nations who would make themselves our adversaries, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace; before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.
Possibly half-a-dozen men in a
nation were entrusted with the idea that had formed in Jacobus Laningdale's head.
If your
nation beat them, how came you to be taken?
