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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued…
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of…
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And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the…
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general…
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into…
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done,…
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on…
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection,…
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of…
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The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in…
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them…
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So how do we solve this ancient problem? How can we not just tolerate someone who believes differently than we do, but…
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It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs…
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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you…
— Caleb Cushing
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings…
— A. S. Byatt
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The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all
— Henry Ward Beecher
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