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... immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe as overwhelming the old American stock . Here we must pause and admit the danger . After all , the character of the American people now and hereafter will determine whether each and all of ...
... immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe as overwhelming the old American stock . Here we must pause and admit the danger . After all , the character of the American people now and hereafter will determine whether each and all of ...
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... immigration . When labor unions illegally stopped non - union men working , the courts by injunctions preserved the right of men to work when and where and at such wages as they see fit . When a money trust sought to control the country ...
... immigration . When labor unions illegally stopped non - union men working , the courts by injunctions preserved the right of men to work when and where and at such wages as they see fit . When a money trust sought to control the country ...
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... immigrants belonged to the middle class of small farmers , tradesmen , and craftsmen who felt the con- tinual pressure of poverty . . . . Social distinctions , almost wanting in Plymouth , were marked in Massachusetts Bay . . . . The ...
... immigrants belonged to the middle class of small farmers , tradesmen , and craftsmen who felt the con- tinual pressure of poverty . . . . Social distinctions , almost wanting in Plymouth , were marked in Massachusetts Bay . . . . The ...
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... immigrants of the preceding period had not exceeded twenty - five thousand a primitive stock , from which has been derived not less , per- haps , than a fourth part of the present population of the United States . " Bancroft , writing ...
... immigrants of the preceding period had not exceeded twenty - five thousand a primitive stock , from which has been derived not less , per- haps , than a fourth part of the present population of the United States . " Bancroft , writing ...
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... immigrants , with the rigid Presbyterian doctrine and conservatism of their class , they were democratic in practice ... immigration to the South after colonial times . The South thenceforth relied on its own native white stock for ...
... immigrants , with the rigid Presbyterian doctrine and conservatism of their class , they were democratic in practice ... immigration to the South after colonial times . The South thenceforth relied on its own native white stock for ...
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Page 386 - I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States.
Page 250 - If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed,. that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
Page 2 - And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 301 - The annual quota of any nationality for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1927, and for each fiscal year thereafter, shall be a number which bears the same ratio to 150,000 as the number of inhabitants in continental United States in. 1920...
Page 322 - Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered but to be schooled.
Page 131 - The first Jesuits were Jews : that mysterious Russian Diplomacy which so alarms Western Europe is organised and principally carried on by Jews ; that mighty revolution which is at this moment preparing in Germany, and which will be, in fact, a second and greater Reformation, and of which so little is as yet known in England, is entirely developing under the auspices of Jews...
Page 235 - It is quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the government, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy. The day will come when in the state of New York a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature.
Page 186 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Page 254 - I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men, but they did not intend to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity.
Page 43 - These five contributions to civilization — peace-keeping, religious toleration, the development of manhood suffrage, the welcoming of new-comers, and the diffusion of well-being — I hold to have been eminently characteristic of our country, and so important that, in spite of the qualifications and deductions which every candid citizen would admit with regard to every one of them, they will ever be held in the grateful remembrance of mankind. They are reasonable grounds for a steady, glowing patriotism....