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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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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all…
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Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit…
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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
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Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I…
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost…
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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit…
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As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a…
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The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He…
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