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The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would… — P. G. T. Beauregard
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. — Abraham Lincoln
First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere - in fact that is the only question… — Henry L. Benning
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same… — Unknown Author
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence.… — Laurence M. Keitt
I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that the Government will… — Unknown Author
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of… — Isham G. Harris
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear,… — John J. Crittenden
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . .… — Alexander H. Stephens
If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong. — Unknown Author
What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property? — Robert M. T. Hunter
I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against the government under… — John Brown Baldwin
But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause… — John Brown Baldwin
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail. — John C. Calhoun
Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever… — James Henry Hammond
The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon… — James Henry Hammond
Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and… — Unknown Author
Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang… — Vladimir Lenin
The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time,… — George B. McClellan
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. — Abraham Lincoln
I would fight them if they were a million! — Albert Sidney Johnston
We'll make a bunker hill of it. — George Pickett
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save… — Abraham Lincoln
Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!? — Lewis Armistead

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