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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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The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
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Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the…
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Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and…
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Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
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We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with…
— Jefferson Davis
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the…
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I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that…
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