We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

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