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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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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
— Daniel Boone
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A ship's a fool to fight a fort.
— Horatio Nelson
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice,…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It…
— Madeleine Stowe
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I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.
— Zach Galifianakis
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
— Calamity Jane
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I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school,…
— Armie Hammer
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People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever…
— Peter Fonda
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I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
— Danny Glover
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A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the…
— Meriwether Lewis
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Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with…
— John Ensign
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It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.
— Cynthia Lewis
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