 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisJom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment....be the creed of our political faith — the text of civil instruction — the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...and guided our steps thro»gh an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and Wood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment:...be the creed of our political faith ; the text of civil instruction ; the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith—the text of civil instruction—the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust;... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 964 pages
...before us and guided pur steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their...the creed of our political faith, the text of civic institutions, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we wander... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 966 pages
...before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their...the creed of our political faith, the text of civic institutions, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we wander... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1855 - 966 pages
...before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their...the creed of our political faith, the text of civic institutions, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we wander... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and the blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment....be the creed of our political faith — the text of civil instruction — the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust ; and should we... | |
 | Democratic Party (N.Y.). State Convention - Campaign literature - 1856 - 48 pages
...of our national policy, and to•have become, what their authors mean they shall be, "the creed of political faith, the text of civic instruction, the...touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust;" at once the prompter and the guide of individual duty and public action. Everything hitherto done under... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 816 pages
...their attainment ; they should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic institutions, the touchstone by which to try the services of those...and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace onr steps, and to regain tho road which alone leads to peace,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 728 pages
...and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment....be the creed of our political faith — the text of civil CHAP. XII.] THE RECEPTION BY THE PUBLIC. 633 instruction — the touchstone by which to try the... | |
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These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. 
