Quotes by Caleb Cushing - Page 1

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
Caleb Cushing / Diplomat
Government
Foundation
Pyramids
Foundations
Outlast
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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Doctrine
Organized
Republic
Upheld
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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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Good World Words
Forth
Mission
Uttered
Winged
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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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Men
Doctrine
England
Forefathers
Liberty
New England
Puritan
Doctrines
Hold
Inherit
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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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Running
Blood
England
Household
Veins
Petition
Runs
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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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Men
Countrymen
Madison
Virginia
Be True
Constitutional
Washington
Henry
Jefferson
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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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Natural Rights
Commission
Respecting
Tampered
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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Government
Gentleman
People
Virtue
Conceive
Gentlemen
Resting
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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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Calm
Done
Entertaining
Gentleman
Looks
Principles
Pursued
Beg
Gentlemen
Opinions
Review
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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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Driven
Form
Slavery
Advance
Forms
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Intend
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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Denial
Impossible
Mind
Order
Refusal
Rejection
Summary
Distinguish
Petition
Receive
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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Constitution
House
Method
Principles
Deciding
Dictate
Maintain
Principle
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Shall
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The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
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Congress
Constitution
Grants
Made
People
Reserved
By The People
Conferred
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
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Legal
Country
Debate
England
Legal Rights
People
Revive
Rights
Understood
Argued
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And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
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Capitol
People
Redress
Voice
Wall
Influences
Receive
Send
Shall
Walls
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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Adoption
Awakened
Conventions
People
Rejection
Debates
Respective
Several
Sir
Submitted
Warmest
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The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
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House
Matter
Slave
Slavery
Cited
Received
Reference
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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Kings
Britons
Europe
Heritage
Law
Republic
Formed
Great Republic
Liberties
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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Burning
Cutting
Dynasty
Noble
Edge
Petition
Remained
Saxon
Sword
Untouched
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Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
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Debate
Excitement
Lord
Transportation
Considerable
Reference
Sir
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If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
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Doors
Investigation
Plausible
Slave
Supposing
District
Interests
Legislate
Receive
Refusing
Subject
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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
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Extraordinary
Inherent
Reception
Unconstitutional
Great Responsibility People
Conceive
Heads
Petition
Raise
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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Acceptance
Preservation
Coupled
Deemed
Essential
Proposed
Recommendation
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
Caleb Cushing / Diplomat
Heart
House
Mean
Members
Principles
Hearts
Observe
Shall
Sir
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