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... ideal . Our history has been a zigzag , bungling ex- periment in self - government . Democracy is a simple concept , but extraordinarily difficult to live up to . We need continually to renew our faith in it and to attack the dangers ...
... ideal . Our history has been a zigzag , bungling ex- periment in self - government . Democracy is a simple concept , but extraordinarily difficult to live up to . We need continually to renew our faith in it and to attack the dangers ...
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... ideal , so Americanism has been subject to all sorts of compromises and cloudings , and has never yet fully expressed itself in the general prac- tice . No one of us is exempted from the task of scru- tinizing our social and political ...
... ideal , so Americanism has been subject to all sorts of compromises and cloudings , and has never yet fully expressed itself in the general prac- tice . No one of us is exempted from the task of scru- tinizing our social and political ...
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... ideal we may speak of that political liberty that was as- serted in the historical Declaration of Independence- " these colonies are , and of right ought to be , free and independent States . " ยท Of the Revolution which won this ...
... ideal we may speak of that political liberty that was as- serted in the historical Declaration of Independence- " these colonies are , and of right ought to be , free and independent States . " ยท Of the Revolution which won this ...
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... ideal of Liberty often conflicts with that other great ideal of Union which we shall presently discuss . At this point we may be content to point out that North and South were essentially one peo- ple , one in language and political ...
... ideal of Liberty often conflicts with that other great ideal of Union which we shall presently discuss . At this point we may be content to point out that North and South were essentially one peo- ple , one in language and political ...
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... ideal of Liberty itself fought against them . The present complete and happy reunion of North and South and the eminence that the united nation has attained , purged of sectionalism and of slavery , testi- fies that although both sides ...
... ideal of Liberty itself fought against them . The present complete and happy reunion of North and South and the eminence that the united nation has attained , purged of sectionalism and of slavery , testi- fies that although both sides ...
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