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“What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?”

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Robert M. T. Hunter was a prominent American politician who served as a Virginia State Senator. He was born on April 21, 1809, and passed away on July 18, 1887. more

“But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause of complaint which has been influential in any quarter, to bring about the crisis which is now upon us; if any State or any people have made the troubles growing out of this question, a pretext for agitation instead of a cause of honest complaint, Virginia can have no sympathy whatever, in any such feeling, in any such policy, in any such attempt. It is the slavery question. Is it not so?”

People Ifs Has Beens Made War States Feelings Causes Growing Trouble Honest Policy Crisis Slavery Civil War Quarters Complaints Influential Virginia Pretext Agitation No Sympathy

Author:John Brown Baldwin

“The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.”

Humans Has Beens War States Liberty Slavery Civil War Efficient Aggression Defence

Author:John C. Calhoun

“Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.”

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Book:Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

Source: Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

“The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.”

Source: Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

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Author:Tim Ferriss

“Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.”

Men Speak Solitude Wit Glitter Loner Converses

Book:Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems

Source: Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems

“Until I truly loved, I was alone.”

Love Loner

Book:The Lady of La Garaye

Source: The Lady of La Garaye

“Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.”

Solitude Nurse Loner

Book:The Works ...: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works ...: With a Life of the Author

“Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.”

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Author:Alexander Guchkov

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