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Slaveholder Inspirational Quotes (2709)

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We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
Andrew Jackson
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My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.
Christopher Gadsden
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Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.
Muhammad
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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
Patrick Henry
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If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
Thomas Jefferson
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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Thomas Jefferson
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
Thomas Jefferson
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Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan let us come together and stand together.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
Robert E. Lee
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Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
Thomas Jefferson
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.
Thomas Jefferson
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I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
Sam Houston
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If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.
Andrew Jackson
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[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Patrick Henry
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God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.
George Whitefield
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Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted
George Whitefield
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Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
P. T. Barnum
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He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.
Muhammad
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What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
George Washington
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To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country - the young men.
Sam Houston
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If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
Thomas Jefferson
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History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
George Washington
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Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table [the Constitution] gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor.
George Mason
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Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
George Washington
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