Caleb Cushing Quotes & Sayings
24 most famous Caleb Cushing quotes and sayings (diplomat). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.”
“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.”
“We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?”
“The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.”
“This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.”
“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.”
“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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