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Slaveholder Inspirational Quotes (2707)

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When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state
Thomas Jefferson
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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
Robert E. Lee
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Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?
William Henry Harrison
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The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
William Henry Harrison
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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
William Henry Harrison
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The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
William Henry Harrison
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All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.
William Henry Harrison
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Times change, and we change with them.
William Henry Harrison
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Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.
Thomas Jefferson
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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
Robert E. Lee
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Be not forward, but friendly and courteous the first to salute, hear and answer and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
George Washington
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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
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As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
George Mason
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
Thomas Jefferson
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The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.
James Madison
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That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.
Cotton Mather
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The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.
William Meade
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Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.
James Madison
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I am not a Virginian, I am an American.
Patrick Henry
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To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
P. T. Barnum
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
George Washington
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There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
Robert E. Lee
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Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
Benjamin Rush
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