George Haven Putnam Quotes

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• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor… Accusation
• An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends… Attempt
• But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it… Adherence
• Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please,… All
• We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. Been
• Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand… Dare
• John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. Brown

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