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"But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
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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
"But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes."
Authority
"But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other."
Nature
"Therefore, states are equal in natural rights."
Rights
"It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state."
Absence
"The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war."
Society
"But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for."
Being
"I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can."
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