"Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at……" — Robert Toombs
"Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government."
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Robert Toombs
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32 Quotes by Robert Toombs
Robert Toombs has 32 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate…
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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…
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Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained…
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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…
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They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere…
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I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the…
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With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have…
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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…
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They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all…
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More Abroad Quotes
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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