Quotes About Proclamation

When the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, on January 1, 1863, Abbott wrote from the front to his aunt to explain that "[t]he president's proclamation is of course received with universal disgust, particularly the part which enjoins officers to see that it is carried out. You may be sure that we shan't see to any thing of the kind, having decidedly too much reverence for the constitution.

Washington contrived a statesmanlike compromise between Hamilton's truculence and Randolph's civility. He issued a proclamation telling the insurgents to desist by September 1, or the government would send in a militia. At the same time, he announced that a three-man commission would confer with citizens

Many people knew that Hamilton, Madison, and Jay were the authors, but the trio proclaimed their authorship to only a chosen few and then mostly after the first bound volume was published in March 1788.

I will not hesitate to exhaust the powers thus vested in the Executive…for the purpose of securing to all citizens of the United States the peaceful enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution and laws. —ULYSSES S. GRANT, Proclamation, May 3, 1871

Hathi, the wild elephant, who lives for a hundred years and more, saw a long, lean blue ridge of rock show dry in the very centre of the stream, he knew that he was looking at the Peace Rock, and then and there he lifted up his trunk and proclaimed the Water Truce

You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel. There

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

Joel Richardson

The seventies involved a confrontation with a frightening truth: that despite the sacrifices and costs of the black freedom struggle, the country remained profoundly racist and, no matter its proclamations to the contrary, white America was perfectly comfortable with that fact.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.

Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets.

Get thee up into the high mountain… say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

For this thing was not done in a corner.

This is Jesus the King of the Jews.

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.

Go tell it on the mountain,Over the hills and everywhere;Go tell it on the mountain,That Jesus Christ is born.

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.

O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet.

If these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.