Progressive Democracy: Addresses and State Papers of Alfred E. SmithHarcourt, Brace, 1928 - 392 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Albany amendment appropriation bill Assembly believe bond issue bond money building campaign canal citizens classification yard Commission commissioner committee Congressman Mills Constitution construction cooing coöperation cost Court Democratic party Department duty Eighteenth Amendment election enacted ernor executive budget fact Federal freight give going Governor Miller Governor Smith hospitals houses institutions interest Interstate Commerce Commission Island Jersey labor Land Board lature legislative leaders Legislature liberty look Manhattan Island matter ment million dollars mind nation never operation Park Council passed political Port Authority President prison proposal question railroad reason Republican party schools Senate Sing Sing Sing Sing Prison speak speech State's Staten Island statute talk Tammany Hall thing tion tonight United Volstead Act vote Washington water front water power water-power women York City
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 269 - The right to organize voluntary religious associations to assist in the expression and dissemination of any religious doctrine, and to create tribunals for the decision of controverted questions of faith within the association, and for the ecclesiastical government of all the individual members, congregations, and officers within the general association, is unquestioned. All who unite themselves to such a body do so with an implied consent to this government, and are bound to submit to it.
الصفحة 282 - They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
الصفحة 167 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious. This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her. Even when they are not, by abundant testimony of the medical fraternity continuance for a long time on her feet at work, repeating this from day to day, tends to injurious effects upon the body, and, as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of woman...
الصفحة 176 - In numerous instances this court has sustained local enactments, passed in the exercise of the police power of the state, in the interest of the public health and safety, notwithstanding the regulation may incidentally or indirectly affect interstate commerce.
الصفحة 282 - In effect, it strikes at the very foundation of one of the most cardinal institutions of our nation — the fundamental right of the people to enjoy full liberty in the domain of idea and speech. To this fundamental right there is and can be under our system of government but one limitation, namely, that the law of the land shall not be transgressed, and there is abundant statute law prohibiting the abuse of free speech. It is unthinkable that in a representative democracy there should be delegated...
الصفحة 267 - THE power of the civil magistrate extendeth to all men, as well clergy as laity, in all things temporal; but hath no authority in things purely spiritual. And we hold it to be the duty of all men who are professors of the Gospel, to pay respectful obedience to the civil authority, regularly and legitimately constituted.
الصفحة 292 - ... 9. The power confided to Congress by that section, while not exclusive, is territorially coextensive with the prohibition of the first section, embraces manufacture and other intrastate transactions as well as importation, exportation and interstate traffic, and is in no wise dependent on or affected by action or inaction on the part of the several States or any of them.
الصفحة 324 - There has been an effort to give that control to the aluminum trust. If the aluminum trust makes its money fairly, all right. But when it gets money and power by taking the natural resources of the State, it is time for us to object. Do not give up your water power for a promise of quick development. We are poor citizens if we allow the things worth most to get into the hands of a few.
الصفحة 64 - War was testing whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal can long endure.
الصفحة 269 - It is of the essence of these religious unions, and of their right to establish tribunals for the decision of questions arising among themselves, that those decisions should be binding in all cases of ecclesiastical cognizance, subject only to such appeals as the organism itself provides for.