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Slaveholder Inspirational Quotes (2707)

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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
Adam Sedgwick
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
Adam Sedgwick
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
Adam Sedgwick
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Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
Thomas Jefferson
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The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
Muhammad
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Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
Thomas Jefferson
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The Christian world is in a deep sleep nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!
George Whitefield
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To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
Thomas Jefferson
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If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.
George Whitefield
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Henry Clay
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The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
James Madison
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One generation cannot bind another.
Thomas Jefferson
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas Jefferson
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I want my army to be an army of the living God.
Stonewall Jackson
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I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
James Madison
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
James Madison
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Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
Thomas Jefferson
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. . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.
Chief Seattle
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Zeal is the chief source, or one of the chief sources of spiritual power. God employs living souls to communicate life. In all ages, men of zeal have produced great results. This qualification, in the absence of others, can accomplish wonders.
Charles Hodge
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**** it, holler them across.
Jubal Early
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
Thomas Jefferson
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There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.
Stonewall Jackson
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