John Henninger Reagan famous quotes

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The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
-- John Henninger Reagan

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The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
-- John Henninger Reagan

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The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
-- John Henninger Reagan

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But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
-- John Henninger Reagan

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The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
-- John Henninger Reagan

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You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
-- John Henninger Reagan

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God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
No one man is superior to the game.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

John Henninger Reagan famous quotes

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