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Slaveholder Inspirational Quotes (2709)

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It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
Thomas Jefferson
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The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
Thomas Jefferson
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Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
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The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
Thomas Jefferson
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No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
Andrew Jackson
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My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.
George Washington
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How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.
George Whitefield
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I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.
Thomas Jefferson
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The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
Thomas Jefferson
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It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.
George Washington
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We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
James Madison
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I like to see the people awake and alert.
Thomas Jefferson
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We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
Chief Seattle
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Without books, I would certainly die.
Thomas Jefferson
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Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
Thomas Jefferson
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We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.
James Monroe
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A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
Thomas Jefferson
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I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
Thomas Jefferson
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One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.
Thomas Jefferson
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If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
Thomas Jefferson
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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
George Washington
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Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.
Thomas Jefferson
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In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.
Muhammad
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