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"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood."
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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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"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."
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"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."
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"Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat."
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"Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present."
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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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"Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak."
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"To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime."
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"Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly."
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"Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States."
People
"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."
Power
"Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?"
Faith
"The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched."
History
"Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers."
Man
"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."
Legal
"I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate."
Constitution
"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."
Fact
"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."
History
"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."
Government
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