Compromises Over Slavery Quotes & Sayings

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again. — Henry Ford

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises. — Daniel Webster

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. — John Cleveland

It's a very American thing to hide away from death. — David Fincher

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. — Abraham Lincoln

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. — Robert Toombs

We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out. — Maeve Binchy

Jesus is not a religious leader; He is a Savior. You can enjoy His extravagant love even right after you fall into your extravagant sin. — Carlos A. Rodriguez

Meditation creates harmony in the midst of chaos in my inner world and outer reality. — Debasish Mridha

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery. — Jerome K. Jerome

Art is really a battle. — Edgar Degas

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. — Guillaume Apollinaire

I rolled up my sleeve. Penned on my arm in my own writing: If I prove I'm not selfish, Daniel will love me. — Jordan Castillo Price

In the near term, such compromises made possible a continental union of North and South that provided bountiful benefits to freeborn Americans. But in the long run, the Founders' failure to put slavery on a path of ultimate extinction would lead to massive military conflict on American soil - the very sort of conflict whose avoidance was, as we shall now see, literally the primary purpose of the Constitution of 1788. — Akhil Reed Amar

The Social Security's medical consultants support the interest not of the victims but of the organization. — Simone De Beauvoir