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

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Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

Robert Toombs

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“They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.”
“I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.”
“A bachelor is only half a man”
“We have power... Our power isnâ€™t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but itâ€™s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.”
“I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.”
“Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.”
“I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.”
“I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm sure that every kind of filmmaker feels that they can do other genres of film and want to, and I feel the same way.”

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