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Slaveholder Inspirational Quotes (2707)

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The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
Ulysses S. Grant
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It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?
Ulysses S. Grant
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Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I'm afraid I'm elected.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I know only two tunes: one of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both
Thomas Jefferson
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Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson
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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
Thomas Jefferson
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Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.
James Madison
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I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.
Thomas Jefferson
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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
Robert E. Lee
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America ... has ever had, and I trust she ever will have, my honest exertions to promote her interest. I cannot hope that my services have been the best but my heart tells me they have been the best that I could render.
George Washington
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You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
Muhammad
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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
Thomas Jefferson
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In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Martin Van Buren
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From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
James Madison
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Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.
Thomas Jefferson
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