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• It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
  -- William H. Seward (1801-1872) -- Speech, Oct. 25, 1858...
• Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
  -- Henry Clay (1777-1852) -- Speech, 1850 (referring to the Compromise Measures)...
• A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
  -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Chatham Correspondence, Speech, March 2, 1770...
• There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
  -- Stokely Carmichael...
• There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
  -- Stokely Carmichael (1942- )...
• The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself
  but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is....
• Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech, March 15, 1837, p. 349...
• One Law for the Lion and Ox is oppression. -- William H. Blake (1757-1827)
• In the full tide of successful experiment.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801...