top of page
"With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature."
Standard
Customized
More

"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Clear skies do not promise rain."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."
Author Name
Personal Development

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."
Author Name
Personal Development

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
Author Name
Personal Development

"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war."
War

"With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature."
Nature

"They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none."
Diplomacy

"They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories."
Politics

"Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours."
Equality

"The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death."
Death

"When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever."
Politics

"The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic."
Policy

"They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world."
Competition

"I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings."
Nation
bottom of page