| Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 712 pages
...glory in it. I am a plebeian. The people — yes, the people of the United States, the great people — have made me what I am ; and I am a-going for to tell...yes, to-day, in this place — that the people are every thing. We owe all to them. If it be not too presumptuous, I will tell the foreign Ministers a... | |
| Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 750 pages
...glory in it. I am a plebeian. The people — yes, the people of the United States, the great people — have made me what I am ; and I am a-going for to tell you here to-day — yes, to-day, iu this place — that the people are every thing. We owe all to them. If it be not too presumptuous,... | |
| Joshua Rhodes Balme - United States - 1866 - 314 pages
...I glory in it. I am a plebeian. The people, yes, the people of the United States ; the great people have made me what I am ; and I am a-going for to tell yeoo here to-day, yes to-day, in this place, that the people are everything. We owe all to them. If... | |
| Eric L. McKitrick - Reconstrucción (Estados Unidos 1863-1877) - 1988 - 550 pages
...plebeian! The people— yes, the people of the United States have made me what I am; and I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day— yes, to-day, in this place— that the people are everything." William E. Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics (2 vols.; New York: Macmillan, 1933),... | |
| Thomas Goodrich - History - 2005 - 386 pages
...plebian! The people— yes, the people of the United States have made me what I am; and I am a-going' to tell you here today — yes, today, in this place — that the people are everything."8 Mumbling one moment, shouting the next, the unsteady speaker paused from time to time... | |
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