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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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It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much…
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No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
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I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and…
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I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a…
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
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The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a…
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to…
— Maria Montessori
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The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the…
— Walter E. Williams
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God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to…
— Giacomo Casanova
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They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and…
— Robert Toombs
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
— Charles Dickens
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and…
— Charles Dickens
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