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At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but…
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The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of…
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The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her…
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African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
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If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent…
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My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's…
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The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as…
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Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous…
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Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There…
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Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in…
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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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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.…
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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to…
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He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
— Horace
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It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
— Andre Agassi
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
— Horace
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If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had…
— Petra Kvitova
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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of…
— Wendell Berry
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In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to…
— Albert Einstein
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Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe,…
— Archibald MacLeish
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But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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