GOVERNMENT GRACE
Hae tibi erunt artes, paoisque imponere morem
Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.
This shall be thy work: to impose conditions of peace, to spare the lowly, and to overthrow the proud.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
A National debt is a National blessing.
The people's government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
[He would do his duty as he saw it] without regard to scraps of paper called constitutions.
No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but 1 never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.
Wherever magistrates were appointed from
among those who complied with the injunctions
of the laws, he (Socrates) considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Xenophon—Memorabilia of Socrates. Bk. IV. Ch. VI.
GRACE
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
Whatever he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.
Ye are fallen from grace.
V. I.
Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
The chief of a thousand for grace.
Kate Franklin—Life at Olympus. Godey's
Lady's Book. Vol. XXIII. P. 33.
And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part,
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
God give him grace to groan!
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
Hail to thae, lady! and the grace of heaven,
Before, behind thee and on every hand,
Enwheel thee round!
Othello. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 85.
For several virtues
Have I lik'd several women; never any
With so full soul, but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd,
And put it to the foil.
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more
natural.
The three black graces, Law, Physic, and
Divinity.
Horace and James Smith—Punch's Holiday.
Narcissus is the glory of his race:
For who does nothing with a better grace?
Young—Love of Fame. Satire IV. L. 85.
