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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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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but…
— Jefferson Davis
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Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a…
— James Q. Wilson
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes…
— Lord Acton
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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through…
— Ed Crane
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Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles…
— Ron Paul
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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really…
— John Milton
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that…
— Al Franken
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What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and…
— Michael Grant
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