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If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.
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A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.
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The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
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We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.
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... How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
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God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.
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Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
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We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for independence - and that, or extermination, we will have.
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It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.
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The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
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Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.
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It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
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We recognize the fact of the inferiority stamped upon that race of men by the Creator, and from the cradle to the grave, our Government, as a civil institution, marks that inferiority.
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To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its
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Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
June 3, 1808
Died:
December 6, 1889
(aged 81)
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