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Slaveholder Inspirational Quotes (2709)

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There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.
James K. Polk
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
James Madison
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
George Washington
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Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.
James Madison
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Who is the most favored of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
Muhammad
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson
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The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
Thomas Jefferson
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Thomas Jefferson
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Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.
Charles Hodge
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When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then
Chief Seattle
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It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
Thomas Jefferson
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God willing and the creek don't rise
Benjamin Hawkins
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
George Washington
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So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
Robert E. Lee
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Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.
James Madison
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In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
George Mason
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A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.
George Washington
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Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
Samuel Hall Lord
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson
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Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Jefferson Davis
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I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
James Madison
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I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
Thomas Jefferson
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My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.
George Washington
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