Caleb Cushing
Caleb Cushing
Caleb Cushingwas an American diplomat who served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth17 January 1800
CountryUnited States of America
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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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.
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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.