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• Sir, I would rather have my problem than yours.
• Would I rather be right, or happy?
• I have heard something said about allegiance to the South.
  I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance....
• If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never!
  ever! never! -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Nov. 18, 1777...
• There is a higher law than the Constitution. -- William H.
  Seward (1801-1872) -- Speech, March 11, 1850...
• I would rather see starlight than streetlights.
• Revolutions are not made; they come. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Jan. 28, 1852
• An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and breaktheir fetters.
  -- Henry Clay (1777-1852) American Statesman -- Speech, House of representatives, March 4, 1818...
• Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustee
  and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people....