I call upon the adversary to show cause, and I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the constitution.
Morley emphasizes the moral entitlement of individuals to participate in the constitutional process.
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But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.
With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.
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