Alexander Hamilton Stephens Famous Quotes
"The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution."
"It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind."
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Quotations
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
Anatole Broyard
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J Peter
"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it."
Frank Tyger
"Instead of having 'answers' on a math test, they should just call them 'impressions,' and if you got a different 'impression,' so what, can't we all be brothers"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire
"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself."
Ruben Studdard
"Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute."
William Hazlitt
"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus."
Desiderius Erasmus