"Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan……" — Caleb Cushing
"Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People."
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Caleb Cushing
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24 Quotes by Caleb Cushing
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your…
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I…
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and…
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And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions…
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by…
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or…
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I…
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is…
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption…
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such…
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The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of…
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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