Quotes by Robert Toombs

Robert Toombs

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

Home

Power

War

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States – no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

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Republic

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

Different

Power

Regulation

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Equality

Expansion

Giving

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

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Regret

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

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Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet’s nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.

Ocean

Suicide

War

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

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Common

Government

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

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Government

Independent

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

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Virginia

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Quotes by Robert Toombs

Robert Toombs

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States – no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet’s nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

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