The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.
He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.
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Marie Lu
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
A thirst for water may be an oasis in your day.
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Anthony T.Hincks
Your smile is what gets me through the day and my dreams of you are what gets me through the night.
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Anthony T. Hincks
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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Jodi Picoult
More Quotes By John C. Calhoun
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.
When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all...
I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to...
What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists...
