It is possible to mention men who have owed great worldly prosperity to breaches of private faith; but we doubt whether it be possible to mention a state which has on the whole been a gainer by a breach of public faith.
And this was a step which could never be repeated, a step which, like most breaches of public faith, was speedily found to have caused pecuniary difficulties greater than those which it removed.
The wars which desolate India originated from a most atrocious violation of public faith on our part.
Apart from the mischief of a delay approaching a breach of public faith, the only inference that can be drawn, if this promise is broken, is that the Government accepts the view in this matter of the Childers Commission.
At all events, I make these suggestions for what they may be worth; if right is to be done to the Irish landed gentry, and a gross breach of public faith is not to be made, some relief of this kind should be extended to them.
The embargo and all the restrictive measures had in view to preserve peace; and peace would always be best maintained by a due regard to public faith.
Never was the cause of national honor, public faith, and public safety more powerfully and eloquently set forth.
Painful, therefore, as it is, this lesson, of the wrong that may be done by a breach of public faith, must be read.
Public Faith is more than mines of silver or gold.
Public Faith may be seen in the evil which springs from its loss and in the good which overflows from its preservation.
Here at once, and on the threshold, Public Faith interposes a summary protest.
Public Faith is in itself a treasury, a tariff, and an internal revenue, all in one.
This seems to be a fair and plain construction of this covenant, or public faith; and none other I think can be made, that will not degenerate into an unconscionable contract, and so destroy itself.
It was with this persuasion, and in a reliance on public faith, that they received paper money in exchange for their merchandise, and kept that paper with a view to employ it in new speculations of commerce.
Upon the whole, as the depreciation crept in gradually, and was unavoidable, all reproaches of a breach of public faith ought to be laid aside; and the only proper inquiry now really is, what is paper honestly worth?
Yet sometimes a pledge of public faith, and the rights of embassy are allowed to men of that description, which was done by Pompey to the fugitives from the Pyrenean forest.
So that all, who have come into the territories of such powers, are protected under the pledge of public faith.
This appropriation is unalterable even by the whole Legislature, unless by a breach of public faith, or providing other equal revenue.
That act was accepted as a pledge of public faith.
Large interests have grown up under the implied pledge of our national legislation, which it would seem a violation of public faith suddenly to abandon.
It iz said that public faith requires the payment of the certificates, according to contract; that iz, to the bearers.
Let me ask the men who contend for promise, what they meen by public faith?
But, Sir, the Union had not lasted five years when our ancestors were guilty of a great violation of public faith.
He says that, if we touch the revenues and privileges of the Established Church, we shall violate that article; and to violate an article of the Treaty of Union is, it seems, a breach of public faith of which he cannot bear to think.
We are therefore, they argue, bound by public faith to continue the old grant; but we are not bound to make any addition to that grant.
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