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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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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago...…
— Ansel Adams
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It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more…
— Will Durant
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Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure, fear of other people, but mostly fear of myself. It…
— Lynda Bellingham
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,…
— Bernard Berenson
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We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago [Israel] and if they do not listen to our recommendations,…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age…
— John Dryden
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Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd…
— Sinclair Lewis
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors…
— Abraham Foxman
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