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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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Once you're a felon you're a target.
— Tommy Chong
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Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a…
— Drake
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Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting…
— Lani Guinier
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Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the…
— Jefferson Davis
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Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial…
— Michelle Alexander
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If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear…
— Jeff Cooper
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What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.
— Jeff Cooper
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If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you…
— Jeff Cooper
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A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which…
— William Hazlitt
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon…
— Ben Jonson
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When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just…
— W. S. Gilbert
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If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God…
— Spider Robinson
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