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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
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The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
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I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ…
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It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and…
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had…
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I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish…
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Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
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There is a higher law than the Constitution.
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We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can…
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It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
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The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But…
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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same…
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School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you…
— Rush Limbaugh
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POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to…
— Paulo Coelho
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If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men…
— Lucy Parsons
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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all…
— William H. Seward
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Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.
— Federico Fellini
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men…
— Lucy Parsons
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