"With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one……" — Robert Toombs
"With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature."
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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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I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the…
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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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