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"If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."
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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."
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"Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."
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"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."
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"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."
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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."
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"Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad."
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"Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people."
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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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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, in a calm review of facts and of principles."
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"The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil."
Evil
"Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers."
Man
"It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition."
Politics
"I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms."
Time
"When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons."
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"If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions."
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"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."
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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, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions."
People
"Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?"
Faith
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