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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 the chain they…
- My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's…
- Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time…
- It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United…
- Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that…
- To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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