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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
George Haven Putnam
Could Washington himself speak, would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us, who sustain his policy, or upon you who repudiate it
George Haven Putnam
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
George Haven Putnam
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
George Haven Putnam
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
George Haven Putnam
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Thomas Browne
You make a mistake, you keep going.
Linda Gray
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
Joan D. Vinge
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(About Government)
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
George Haven Putnam
Could Washington himself speak, would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us, who sustain his policy, or upon you who repudiate it
George Haven Putnam
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
George Haven Putnam
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
George Haven Putnam
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
George Haven Putnam
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Related Authors: Chester W. Nimitz - Xenophon - Bernard Law Montgomery - Lord Edward Cecil - Robert E. Lee - Douglas MacArthur - Lord Amherst - Oliver North
Based on Topics: Government Quotes
Based on Keywords: accusations, dungeons, menaces, slandered
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Thomas Browne
You make a mistake, you keep going.
Linda Gray
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
Joan D. Vinge