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- If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
- While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the…
- I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
- We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States.…
- The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was…
- At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was…
- A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain…
- Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
- Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about…
- I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the…
- If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year…
- Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other…
- I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen…
- Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
- A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
- The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always…
- What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out…
- Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,…
- No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an…
- The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin…
- By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts,…
- [I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the…
- [T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce…
- Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the…
- Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle