LEE: I make a motion that the Declaration ofIndependence as written by Mr. Jefferson be accepted and the news be given to the world that we are a free people.
The next act will be the signing of the Declaration of Independenceas written by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.
It must have inflamed these haughty, ambitious leaders to fury to see all their brilliant visions of war and conquest and nationalindependence melting away in a mist of what seemed to them the mere impossible sentimentalism of love.
And it was this same burning, impatient national spirit of independence that slew Christ which afterwards provoked the Roman government beyond endurance, and brought upon Jerusalem wrath to the uttermost.
I say it is with a glorious sense ofindependence that one sees himself emancipated from all these restraints, and recognizes his freedom to be that which nature has made him.
No, I don't; but I believe that every man slave, who has independence of character sufficient to cause him to be alone at night between two hostile armies, wishes to be free.
The colonies rebelled against Great Britain and won their independence in war," said I.
No, not anybody," said the Captain; "it shows some independence of mind to prefer it.
His earliest ally was Ahmed "Jezzar," who established himself in Acre in contumacious independence late in the 18th century.
They had successfully resisted Ibrahim, the Egyptian, in 1839 in the Lija, and asserted complete independenceof the Turks, living under a theocratic government directed by the chief Akil in Suweda.
During the years that followed, Drente, though unrepresented in the states-general, retained its local independence and had its own stadtholder.
The weaker candidate solicited the protection of Justinian, and ambitiously subscribed a treaty of alliance, which deeply wounded the independence and happiness of his country.
Has he not violated the privileges of Armenia, the independence of Colchos, and the wild liberty of the Tzanian mountains?
But Naples soon acquired the privilege of electing her own dukes: the independence of Amalphi was the fruit of commerce; and the voluntary attachment of Venice was finally ennobled by an equal alliance with the Eastern empire.
The independence of the Homerites, who reigned in the rich and happy Arabia, was first violated by an Æthiopian conqueror: he drew his hereditary claim from the queen of Sheba, and his ambition was sanctified by religious zeal.
Their independence was soon invaded by a formidable neighbor, who had acquired, by arms and treaties, the sovereignty of Iberia.
The conscious dignity of independence was subdued by the hopes and fears of a slave; and the secretary of Belisarius labored for pardon and reward in the six books of the Imperial edifices.
Those bold savages, who had disdained to be the subjects of Gallienus, persisted two hundred and thirty years in a life of independence and rapine.
Many marriages have been permanently marred because the woman has been given no independence in money matters and is obliged to come for each small thing to her husband.
He will on grave occasions assert his independence of party, but in the large majority of cases he must act with his party even if they are pursuing courses in some degree contrary to his own judgment.
Every one who is actively engaged in politics--every one especially who is a member of the House of Commons--must soon learn that if the absolute independence of individual judgment were pushed to its extreme, political anarchy would ensue.
Larger interests, wider sympathies, a more disciplined judgment, and a greater power of independence and self-control naturally accompany it; and these things can never be wholly wasted.
In the days when small boroughs were openly bought in the market, this was sometimes defended on the ground of the complete independence of judgment which it gave to the purchasing member.
Instead of pushing his fortune in the line marked out for the heir of the house of Elliot, he had purchased independence by uniting himself to a rich woman of inferior birth.
It is very inspiring, my friends, to come to this that may be called the original fountain of independence and liberty in American and here drink draughts of patriotic feeling which seem to renew the very blood in one's veins.
A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
He ought not to come where immortal voices have uttered the great sentences of such a document as this Declaration of Independence upon which rests the liberty of a whole nation.
No one who speaks counsel based on fact or drawn from a just and candid interpretation of realities can say that there is reason to fear that from any quarter our independence or the integrity of our territory is threatened.
Our independence is a fact so stupendous that it can be measured only by the size and energy and variety and wealth and power of one of the greatest nations in the world.
We must hold steadily in view their ultimate independence, and we must move toward the time of that independence as steadily as the way can be cleared and the foundations thoughtfully and permanently laid.
No man who has chosen the wrong way ought even to come into Independence Square; it is holy ground which he ought not to tread upon.
I hear a great many people at Fourth of July celebrations laud the Declaration of Independence who in between Julys shiver at the plain language of our bills of rights.
Have you ever read the Declaration of Independence or attended with close comprehension to the real character of it when you have heard it read?
The Declaration of Independencewas written in Philadelphia; it was adopted in this historic building by which we stand.
We said, "This independence of ours is not a selfish thing for our own exclusive private use.
Virginia declared her Independence before any of the Colonies, and gave the first written Constitution to mankind.
She furnished to the Confederate States the father of his country, under whose guidance Independence was achieved, and the rights and liberties of each State, it was hoped, perpetually established.
Under the leading of Virginia statesmen the Revolution of 1798 was brought about, Louisiana was acquired, and the second war of independence was waged.
But the poor immigrant, with nothing but his muscle and his industry, has a long and rough road to travel before he reaches independence as a landed proprietor.
There was a mutual independence among the various centres, it is true, but the independence was at the expense of civilization and the comforts of life.
This industry, therefore, gave the country not only commercial prominence, but was largely responsible for its political independence as well.
Tis a condition of things that the Irish nationalist of to-day has to take into consideration in connection with a fight for the independence of Ireland.
To Italy the overthrow of the Lombard kings was the loss of its last chance of independence and unity.
He broke up theindependence of the great southern duchies, Benevento and Spoleto.
During the war of Independence the battle of Long Island (see below) was fought within what is now the borough of Brooklyn.
Before the War ofIndependence the site of Long Branch was owned by Colonel White, a British officer.
Those of the northern marches, Trent and Friuli, with the important dukedom of Turin, retained longer the kind of independence which marchlands usually give where invasion is to be feared.
He belonged to the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft under the name Der Verkleinernde, and regarded himself as a follower of Martin Opitz; but he did not allow such ties to influence his independence or originality.
The independence of the dukes was surrendered to the king.
Athelstan's acceptance of the London-made law for the whole kingdom, as pointed out by Mr Gomme, is another instance of the independence of the Londoner.
Gomme finds important evidence of the independence of London in the existence of a merchant law which was opposed to Anglo-Saxon law.
Historically this doctrine was formulated as the declaration of independence of the insurgents in revolt against the pretensions of absolutist logic.
Crispus Attucks was a fair representative of the colonial negro, as they evinced thereafter, during the prolonged struggle which resulted in the Independence of the United States.
Companies, battalions and regiments of negro troops soon entered the field and the struggle for independence and liberty, giving to the cause the reality of freedmen's fight.
This letter settles forever any boast of the Southerners, that to them is due the credit of gaining the independence of the United States.
Many negroes at the South, who fought for American independence were re-enslaved, and this is so far beyond a doubt that no one denies it.
A letter from General Lee to General Wise is published, thanking the latter's brigade for resolutions recently adopted declaring that they would consent to gradual emancipation for the sake of independence and peace.
We are all enlisted for the war, and there must be no holding back until the independence of the South is fully acknowledged.
Loyal Heart said to him; "To complain when the most glorious trophy of the victory was reserved to you; through the capture of that prisoner, the war is over, and the Independence of Texas assured for ever.
The publication of his Formulary of Union is a gross attack upon the spiritual independence of the Church.
Not only now were the Three Chapters in question, but the whole right and independence of the Church's authority.
And it would have triumphed while the instrument of its triumph, the Henotikon, would have inflicted a deadly blow upon the government of the Church by taking away the independence of her teaching office.
