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Speech in Season

This book compiles a selection of speeches that have been delivered on a range of topics and for diverse audiences, showcasing the author's eloquence and insight across different settings. more

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Hugh Reginald Haweis
Hugh Reginald Haweis

British writer, born on April 3, 1838, and died on January 29, 1901. Known for his poetry, prose, and theological works, he was renowned for his literary and religious thoughts. more

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“The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.”

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Book:An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations
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“Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.”

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Book:Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes
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