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Slaveholder Inspirational Quotes (2707)

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We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.
Robert E. Lee
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The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
James K. Polk
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Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.
George Mason
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You cannot barter manhood for peace.
Robert E. Lee
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson
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Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.
George Whitefield
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We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
Thomas Jefferson
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The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank all I did was try and make.
Ulysses S. Grant
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A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
Thomas Jefferson
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Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.
Chief Seattle
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
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[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.
James Monroe
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Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
Thomas Jefferson
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We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.
Robert Toombs
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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson
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...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
Ulysses S. Grant
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By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay
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The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
Thomas Jefferson
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Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.
Thomas Jefferson
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The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.
John Marshall
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
George Washington
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We are all but instruments of God.
Stonewall Jackson
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