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You can never conquer us, we will die first.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Conquer
Will Die Never
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Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Power
Sycophants
Worshippers
Anywhere
Sir
Worshipper
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The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Humiliation
Overwhelming
Complete
North
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But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Path
Shall
Sir
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As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Code
Senators
Wade
Ben
Senator
Opposed
Recognize
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I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Men
Amazed
Facility
Slavery
Some Men
Wake
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I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Advocating
Sentiments
Advocate
Unpopular
Floor
Unaware
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I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Men
Chamber
Compromise
Fall
May
Senate
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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Power
Men
Travel
Drag
Liberty
Persuasive
Unconscious
Considerations
Current
Exerted
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Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Men
Born
Doctrine
Equal
Equal Rights
Ideas
Rights
Seems
Men I Am Me
Conduct
Men Me I Am
Correct
Hesitate
Leads
Strictly
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If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Free State
Horse
Slave
Carries
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We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Impossible
Connection
Further
Gulf
Rendered
Separates
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I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Bears
Heart
Human Heart
Influence
Mind
Opinion
Popular Opinion
Respectability
Bear
Current
Glide
Motives
Minds
Popular
Seduce
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To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Eclipse
Glory
Morrow
Obscurity
Republic
Sun
Believe I Believe Together
Heavens
Perfectly
Proper
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I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Independence
Men
Black
Born
Declaration
Equal
Late
Might
Regret
Free
All The World
Appears
Believed
Doctrines
Slaves
Some Men
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I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
Benjamin F. Wade / Former United States Senator
Communication
Evident
Mistaken
Pretend
Foot
Greatly
Medium
Precisely
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