"I very much regret, in appearing before you……" — Robert Toombs
"I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings."
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32 Quotes by Robert Toombs
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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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Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power…
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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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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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