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"I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations."
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"In the history of the earth, the sun remains still."
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"His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up."
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"Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal."
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"Cloud is cloud."
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"Let the beauty of sunrise, keep your heart warm."
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"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
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"Life is a natural phenomenon " and by mystifying it, one only disgraces its natural beauty."
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"Every flower displays its beautiful colours in autumn."
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"Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature."
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"Every good tree shall bear fruits in the sacred season."
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"It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it."
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"I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it."
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"The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection."
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"There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery."
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"Therefore, states are equal in natural rights."
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"I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations."
Nature
"But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations."
Nature
"But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man."
Constitution
"Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery."
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"To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority."
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