"Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty."
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"Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people ."
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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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"Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging."
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"Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves."
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"Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together."
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"Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting."
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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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"If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen."
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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 people."
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"A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible."
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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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"How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited."
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"The authors of all our misfortune."
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"Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat."
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"Pray excuse me. I cannot take it."
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