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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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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our…
— Annie Besant
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them…
— William Penn
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on…
— John Tillotson
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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
— B.F. Skinner
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Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.
— Jefferson Davis
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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and…
— Plato
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
— Sophocles
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Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand…
— Dave Barry
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