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Slaveholder Inspirational Quotes (2709)

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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
George Washington
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In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
James Madison
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Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
James K. Polk
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Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.
George Washington
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I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.
Thomas Jefferson
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The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
Thomas Jefferson
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If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.
George Whitefield
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[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.
Thomas Jefferson
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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian Mathematics Natural philosophy Natural History Civil History Ethics.
Thomas Jefferson
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Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
Samuel Hall Lord
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I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
George Washington
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I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much
Thomas Jefferson
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Influence is not government.
George Washington
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I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.
P. T. Barnum
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Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.
Thomas Jefferson
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When the heart is right, the feet are swift.
Thomas Jefferson
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A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
Samuel Hall Lord
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It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.
Thomas Jefferson
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Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.
George Whitefield
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
George Washington
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Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.
Stonewall Jackson
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Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.
George Washington
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I fear we may live to see another revolution.
John Marshall
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