The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may be. -Richard Cecil

 

The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may be.


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This quote is just one of 10 total Richard Cecil quotes in our collection. Richard Cecil is known for saying 'The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may be.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

Richard Cecil
295

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

Richard Cecil
243
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. -Richard Cecil
206

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Richard Cecil
205

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.

Richard Cecil
204
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things. -Richard Cecil
152

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Richard Cecil
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