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"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."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
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"There is no gambling like politics."
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"A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill."
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"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."
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"Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics."
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"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
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"Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest."
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"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."
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"Oppression is opposition."
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"Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic."
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"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
"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."
Equality
"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
"Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government."
Government
"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
"Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy."
Government
"Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war."
War
"The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day."
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