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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
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There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of…
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Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was…
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The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every…
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Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation…
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Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them…
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Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
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The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict…
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They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare…
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I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and…
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With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least…
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The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
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There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion;…
— Chanakya
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That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around…
— Karl Pilkington
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Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as…
— John Derbyshire
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If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your…
— Thomas Brooks
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Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.
— Will Hobbs
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A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without…
— Gregor Piatigorsky
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Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
— David Copperfield
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My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.
— Unknown Author
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The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.
— Dion Fortune
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Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol…
— Woody Allen
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Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the…
— Edward Topsell
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