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Caleb Cushing

"The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins."

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"The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins."

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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."

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"Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp."

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"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."

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"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."

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"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."

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"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."

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"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"

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"A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood."

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"It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes."

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"I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'"

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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."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers."
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"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."
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"The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress."
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"Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?"
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"Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People."
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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."
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