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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
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There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of…
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Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was…
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The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every…
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Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation…
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Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them…
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Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
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The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict…
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They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare…
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I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and…
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With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least…
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The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those…
— James Madison
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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection,…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is…
— Unknown Author
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For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by…
— Thomas Hobbes
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There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and…
— Calvin Johnson
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Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five…
— Peter Thiel
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I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since…
— Zach Braff
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Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
— Jalal Talabani
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If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern…
— Andrew Johnson
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The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of…
— Donald Harington
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