Robert Toombs Quotes

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• Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
• There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of…
• Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
• The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the…
• Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon…
• Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section…
• Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
• The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity…
• They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall…
• I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before…
• With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security…
• The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
• They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to…
• Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole…
• We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions…
• Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf…
• The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.
• We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear,…
• When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and…
• We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a…

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