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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
- Advocate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, what are you going to do about it?
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020