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"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."
"All evil is good become cancerous."
"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
Explore more quotes by Caleb Cushing
"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."
"And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress."
"The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil."
"Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day."
"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."
"Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate."
"These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever."
"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
"The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins."
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