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Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented to you the…

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At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but…
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of…
The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her…
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent…
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's…
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as…
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous…
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There…
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in…
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them…

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It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. — Charles Caleb Colton
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the… — James Madison
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient… — Malcolm Muggeridge
This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative… — Dalai Lama
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery… — John Stuart Mill
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and… — Eisaku Sato
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men… — Aldous Huxley
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. — Charles Babbage
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. — Elihu Root
You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your… — Harold S. Kushner

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