 | Marion Mills Miller - Public lands - 1916 - 496 pages
...America were pursued, even if the colonists were defeated. "America, if she fall, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her." He moved that the Stamp Act be repealed "absolutely, totally, and immediately," with the reason assigned... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Public lands - 1916 - 500 pages
...economic insight far in advance of other English statesmen of the time. It is a point for "Single Taxers." the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her." He moved that the Stamp Act be repealed "absolutely, totally, and immediately," with the reason assigned... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - Constitutional law - 1916 - 304 pages
...rights, Lord Chatham declared: "If America should fall, she would fall like the strong man Samson; she would embrace the pillars of the State, and pull down the whole structure with her." The American conception of the State has been contested at every point,... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1920 - 296 pages
...Act, which so many here will think a crying injusjicerJ.am^one who will lift up my hands against it. /In such a cause your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she wbnW.ernbrace the pillars of the state and pull down the Constitution with her.... | |
 | 1920 - 1020 pages
...conception that, although he could say, "If America should fall, she would fall like the strong man Samson; she would embrace the pillars of the State, and pull down the whole structure with her." "At the same time," he contended, "this Kingdom, as the supreme governing... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - Great Britain - 1922 - 526 pages
...American Historical Review (April, 1912), 573. on to declare that America was right in her contention, and "if she fell would fall like a strong man. She would...state and pull down the Constitution along with her." Pitt was, as Grattan said, "very great and very odd," a mountebank, perhaps, but "a great mountebank,... | |
 | Willis Mason West - United States - 1922 - 906 pages
...the colonies would be of ill omen for English liberty : " America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man : she would embrace the pillars of the...state, and pull down the constitution along with her." When troops were sent to Boston in 1774, the Earl of Rockinghain and other Whig lords presented a protest... | |
 | 1922 - 842 pages
...the colonies would be of ill omen for English liberty : "America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man : she would embrace the pillars of the...state, and pull down the constitution along with her." When troops were sent to Boston in 1774, the Earl of Rockingham and other Whig lords presented a protest... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1922 - 360 pages
...Act, which so many here will think a crying injustice, I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like tlie strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the slate and pull down the Constitution with her.... | |
 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - Great Britain - 1922 - 524 pages
...declare that America was right in her contention, arid "if she fell would fall like a stronglnan. SKe would embrace the pillars of the state and pull down the Constitution along with her." Pitt was, as Grattan said, " very great and very odd," a mountebank, perhaps, but "a great mountebank,... | |
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I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her. 
