The True Grandeur of Nations: An Oration Delivered Before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845

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H. Longstreth, 1846 - Fourth of July orations - 96 pages
 

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Page 52 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 36 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 27 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 66 - Christ that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us and love our enemies.
Page 89 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy: but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...
Page 13 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 76 - The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man. The truest tokens of this grandeur in a state are the diffusion of the greatest happiness among the greatest number, and that passionless God-like Justice, which controls the relations of the state to other states, and to all the people, wjio are committed to its charge. But war crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is God-like in man. "It is," says the eloquent...
Page 92 - The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Page 74 - Know thyself," still speaks to an ignorant world from the distant letters of gold at Delphi ; know thyself; know that the moral nature is the most noble part of man; transcending far that part which is the seat of passion, strife, and war; nobler than the intellect itself. Suppose war to be decided by force, where is the glory ? Suppose it to be decided by chance, where is the glory? No; true greatness consists in imitating, as near as is possible for finite man, the perfections of an Infinite Creator;...
Page 80 - Spartan women become the grand chorus of mankind, that they have never » seen the smoke of an enemy's camp. Let the iron belt of martial music which now encompasses the earth be exchanged for the golden cestus of peace, clothing all with celestial beauty. History...

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