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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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Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural…
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But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida,…
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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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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything.…
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The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are…
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself,…
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The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these…
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I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000…
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Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down…
— Stephen King
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Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace.…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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