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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 that cradle. Peace…

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At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but…
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of…
The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her…
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent…
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's…
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as…
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous…
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There…
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in…
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 young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in… — Jefferson Davis
My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national… — Zachary Taylor
We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war. — John McCain
We would rather starve than sell our national honor. — Indira Gandhi
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which… — Theodore Roosevelt
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating… — Theodore Roosevelt
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation… — Thomas Paine
National honor is national property of the highest value. — James Monroe
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... — Alfred Adler
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national… — Rebecca Harding Davis

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