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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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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
— Aristotle
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This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in…
— St. Vincent
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Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
— Slavoj Žižek
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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled…
— Aristotle
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For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of…
— Jefferson Davis
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It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many…
— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
— Baltasar Gracian
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It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or…
— Paul Valery
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