![]() ![]() The Senate is just what the mode of its election and the conditions of public life in this country make it. The truth is, in this case as in so many others, something quite commonplace and practical. The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics.Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics (1885 republished 1981), chapter 2, p.Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.Essay on John Bright, Virginia University Magazine, 19:354-370 (March 1880).But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy. I yield to no one precedence in love for the South.Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit. We must all speak, act, and serve together! Because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy. ![]() The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. If my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world. One cannot pay the price of self-respect. There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they come true. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a winter’s night. 1.4.4 Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918). ![]()
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