James L. Petigru
James L. Petigru
James Louis Petigruwas an American lawyer, politician, and jurist in South Carolina. He is best known for his service as the Attorney General of South Carolina, his juridical work that played a key role in the recodification of the state's law code. He was also known for opposing nullification and, in 1860, state secession...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth10 May 1789
CountryUnited States of America
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The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.
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If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
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The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.
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Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.
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It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.
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The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.
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South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
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The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.