the great movement of empire, are unfit to turn a wheel in
    the machine.  But to men truly initiated and rightly taught,
    these ruling and master principles, which in the opinion of
    such men as I have mentioned have no substantial existence,
    are in truth everything and all in all.  Magnanimity in
    politics is not seldom the truest wisdom:  and a great empire
    and little minds go ill together.  If we are conscious of our
    station, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our
    situation and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public
    proceedings on America with the old warning of the church,
    Sursum corda! We ought to elevate our minds to the
    greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has
    called us.  By adverting to the dignity of this high calling,
    our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious
    empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only
    honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the
    wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.  Let us
    get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. 
    English privileges have made it all that it is; English
    privileges alone will make it all it can be.

    In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now (quod
    felix faustumque sit!) lay the first stone of the Temple of
    Peace; and I move you;—­

That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America, consisting of fourteen separate governments, and containing two millions and upwards of free inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending any knights and burgesses, or others, to represent them in the high court of Parliament.

    EDMUND BURKE:  Conciliation with America, 1775

7.  Now, Mr. Speaker, having fully answered all the arguments of
    my opponents, I will retire to the cloak-room for a few
    moments, to receive the congratulations of admiring mends.

    JOHN ALLEN in a speech in Congress

8.  Relying then on the patronage of your good will, I advance
    with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever
    you become sensible how much better choice it is in your
    power to make.  And may that Infinite Power which rules the
    destinies of the universe lead our councils to what is best,
    and give them a favorable issue for your peace and
    prosperity.

    THOMAS JEFFERSON, First Inaugural, 1801

9.  My friends, this is wholly an unprepared speech.  I did not
    expect to be called or to say a word when I came here.  I
    supposed I was merely to do something toward raising a flag. 
    I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet.  But I have
    said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be
    the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.