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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. — Jeffq 21:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

James Wylie
Page with no quotes for a college student with no claims to notability provided. Wikipedia link is to a nonexistent page. InvisibleSun 03:11, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (3 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:26, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 12:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos 14:03, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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Some of my favourite quotes.

 * A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a workstation.
 * A gun is only dangerous when it’s fired.
 * A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not what ships are built for. --John Shedd
 * Actions speak louder than words, but isn't speaking an action?
 * Aim low, then you won’t be so disappointed when you fail.
 * Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
 * All I ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work. ~ I've only ever heard this said by Bilko on The Phil Silvers Show (aka the original Sergeant Bilko)
 * An optimist see opportunity in each and every calamity,where as a pessimist see calamity in each and every opportunity.
 * Any sufficiently undocumented computer program is indistinguishable from magic. (paraphrased from Arthur C. Clarke who said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
 * Anything is a weapon if you swing it right.
 * Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.
 * A real man doesn't cry. He whines.
 * At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go back in the same box.
 * Depression is Anger without Enthusiasm.
 * Decisions are made by those who show up.
 * Don't fix it if it ain't broken.
 * Don't quote me.
 * Columbus was lost.
 * Columbus wasn’t exactly looking for America, but that seemed to work for everyone.

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Talk:The Notebook

My Dearest RJ. I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's beginnig between us. I'm not happy any more, because I know that what we had was fake. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll shoot at you with a rifle and remember how we spent the schol year in the van, learning from each other and growing in hate. The worst hate is the kind that puts your soul to sleep and makes us beg for more, that plants a water in our hearts and brings anarchy to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you never. I hate you. I wont be seeing you. Sarah.

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Admin accountability poll
Admin accountability poll is open, vote here. – Ilovemydoodle (talk / e-mail) 10:08, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

June 2022
– Ilovemydoodle (Not WMF, Not a sockpuppet of Antandrus, Not a paid editor of Shueisha) (talk / e-mail) 19:05, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

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Hello there
Hi, nice name you've chosen. It's a work of Disraeli's if I'm not mistaken.

I'm working intensely on the conservative section of https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Template:Social_and_political_philosophers such as the https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Template:Conservatism_navbox more generally, and thought, maybe you have something to contribute?!

Thanks in advance. Biohistorian15 (talk) 14:03, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I shall try and help out.--Coningsby (talk) 17:29, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

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User talk:Meri H

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Gilmore Girls TOC
Thank you for your offer to maintain the custom table of contents for Gilmore Girls. I must ask, however, what experience you have in working with wiki tables and links. Your sole edit here so far is your single posting to Talk:Gilmore Girls, and there is no w:User:Meri H that would suggest that you have gained experience with MediaWiki editing on Wikipedia. We need to have someone either with considerable existing skills, or who is willing to devote some time to learning them quickly, as GG will be requiring weekly updates just to keep current with its titles, let alone all the other potential problems discussed.

I'll put off my reversion of the GG TOC until at least 0:00 UTC, 12 September 2006, to give you a chance to respond. If you have the necessary experience or time to gain it, I would suggest you start by adding the upcoming episodes as shown at TV.com. If you feel that you are not yet ready for this task, I would invite you to monitor Smallville (or other current TV show that already uses a custom TOC) and try to keep it current, in order to gain experience. Let me know before Tuesday, if possible, which way you'd like to go. Thanks. Jeff Q (talk) 15:00, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Transwiki/American History Primary Sources Age of Exploration

THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

1000.

“As soon as [Vikings and Indians] met they began trading together. Most of all, these people [the Indians] wanted to buy red cloth, in return for which they had furs to offer and gray [seal] skins.”

From the Saga of Eric the Red.

1067.

“Behind the king stood ten pages holding shields and swords decorated with gold and on his right are the sons of the vassal kings of his country wearing splendid garments and their hair plaited with gold.”

Al Bakri, description of the court of King Tenkaminen, emperor of Ghana

1298.

“This new city [Beijing, China] is a perfect square, with each side six miles long. The wall of the city has 12 gates, 3 on each side of the square. The whole city was laid out by line. The streets are so straight that if you stand above one of the gates, you can see the gate on the opposite side of the city.... Everything that is most rare and valuable finds its way here. This is especially true of India, which supplies precious gems, pearls, and spices....

“The country [now called Indonesia] abounds with rich commodities. Pepper, nutmegs,... cloves, all other valuable spices and drugs.... The quantity of gold collected there exceeds all calculation and belief....

“Inside, the walls and halls are all covered with gold and silver and decorated with pictures of dragons and horsemen and various beasts of beasts and scenes of battle.... The hall is so vast that a meal might be served there for more than 6,000 men.”

Marco Polo, whose description of the Spice Islands and the court of the Chinese emperor in his Description of the World raised European interest in the riches of East Asia.

1325.

“So abundant is the gold in his country that this lord [Mansa Musa of Mali in West Africa] is the richest and most noble king in all the land.”

Spanish book of maps, which would later encourage Portugal to explore West Africa in order to open trade.

1330s

The people of Mali “are seldom unjust and have a greater abhorrence of injustice than any other people. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveler nor inhabitant... has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence. They do not confiscate the property of any white man [Arab merchant] who dies in their country..... [O]n the contrary, they give into the charge of some trustworthy person among the whites, until the rightful heir takes possession of it.”

Arab traveler and geographer Ibn Battuta on Timbuktu, the capital of the empire of Mali.

1492.

“As the caravel Pinta was a better sailer, and went ahead of the Admiral [Columbus], she found the land, and made the signals ordered by the Admiral. The land was first seen by a sailor named Rodrigo de Triana. But the Admiral, at ten the previous night... saw a light, though it was so uncertain that he could not affirm it was land.... [T]he Admiral... admonished the men... to watch well for land; and to him who should first cry out that he saw land, he would give a silk doublet, besides other rewards promised by the sovereigns [King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain]. At two hours after midnight the land was sighted at a distance of two leagues [12 miles].

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Wikiquote:Transwiki/American History Primary Sources Articles of Confederation and Const. Convention

The United States During the Articles of Confederation
c. 1776

 * The word republic means the public good of the whole, in contra-distinction to the despotic form which makes the good of the sovereign, or of one man, the only object of government.
 * Thomas Paine

c. 1776

 * In a republic, a citizen in “public property. His time and talents — his youth — his manhood — his old age — nay more, life, belong to his country.
 * Benjamin Rush

1778

 * The fate of America is already decided. Behold her independent beyond recovery.  But will she be free and happy?...  They are the hope of the world.
 * Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and retired official, in a letter to pro-American British philosopher Richard Price.

1781

 * The style [name] of this confederacy shall be “The United States of America.”
 * Articles of Confederation, Article I.

1782

 * Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors an posterity will one day cause great change in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor, and industry which began long since in the east; they will finish the great circle.
 * From Hector St. John de Crevocoeur, Letters from an American Farmer.

America After Winning Independence
1783

 * You and I... have been sent into life at a time when the greatest lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live. How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making... government... fort themselves or their children.
 * John Adams

Problems of the Confederation
c. 1783

 * The Americans will have no center of Union among them.... [T]he American can never be united.

 * English commentator on the newly independent United States

1786

 * So long as any individual state has power to defeat the measures of the other twelve, our pretended union is but a name, our confederation, a cobweb.

 * Noah Webster, in Sketches of American Policy, complaining about the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

1786

 * To the Honorable Congress,

 * I, Rachel, do make this complaint, who am a Widow for advanced in years & Dearly have occasion of the Interest for that Cash I Lent.... I Lent the State a considerable Sum of Moneys & had I justice done me it might be sufficient to Support me in the country where I am now, near Burdentown.  I lived here then... but Being... so Robbed by the Britains & others I went to Phila to try to get a Living... & was There in the year 1783 when our assembly was pleased to pass a law that No one should have any Interest that lived out of Jersey States....

 * Now, gentlemen, is this Liberty?... I have done as much to carry on the War as many that Sit now at the helm of government....  My dear Sister... wrote to me to be thankful that I had it in my Power to help on the War, which is well enough, but then this is to be Considered — that others get their Interest & why then a poor old widow be put off?...

 * Letter from Rachel Wells of Burdentown, New Jersey, to the Continental Congress. Problems such as her eventually led Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, to have the new Federal Government take responsibility for paying off holders of the states’ Revolutionary War debts.

1787

 * I predict the worst consequences from a half-starved, limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

 * George Washington, complaining about the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.1787

 * The toils of agriculture will here be rewarded with a greater variety of valuable productions, than in any part of America.

 * Manasseh Cutler, The First Map and Description of Ohio.

1787

 * Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity, shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.

 * Northwest Ordinance, passed by the Confederation.

1787

 * [New states in the Northwest would join the United States] on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatsoever.

 * Northwest Ordinance, passed by the Confederation.

Shays’s Rebellion (July 1786-January 1787)
1786

 * Our property is torn from us, our gaols filled & still our debts are not discharged.

 * Protest from western Massachusetts during Shays’s Rebellion.

1786

 * We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our Constitution [of the Confederation]. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.

 * George Washington

1786

 * No morn ever dawned more favorably than ours did; and no day was ever more clouded than the present.

 * George Washington to James Madison

1787

 * I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

 * Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Minister to France, in a letter to James Madison, as France was nearing the outbreak of revolution.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
1787

 * To see this nation happy... is so much the wish of my soul.

 * George Washington, on agreeing to give up his retirement and return to public life by heading the Virginia delegation to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

1787

 * It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps, another dreadful conflict is to be sustained.  If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?  Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.  The event is in the hand of God.

 * George Washington, speech at the start of the Constitutional Convention.

1787.

 * Let us not be afraid to view with a steady eye the [dangers] with which we are surrounded.... Are we not on the eve of [civil] war, which is only to be prevented by the hopes from this convention?

 * Edmund Randolph, governor of Virginia, speaking to delegates early in the Constitutional Convention.

1787

 * New Jersey will never agree to the plan. She would be swallowed up!  If we are to be considered as a nation, all state distinctions must be abolished.

 * New Jersey delegate William Patterson, objecting to the Virginia plan.

1787.

 * Some of the members from the small states wish for two branches in the general legislature and are friends to a good national government; but we would sooner submit to a foreign power than submit to be deprives, in both branches of the legislature, of an equal suffrage, and thereby thrown under the dominion of the larger states.

 * John Dickinson, on stresses between small and large states at the Constitutional Convention.

1787

 * I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not approve, but I am not sure that I shall never approve them....

 * I doubt... whether any other Convention... may be able to make a better Constitution.... I cannot help expressing a wish, that very member of the Convention who may still have objections to it, would with me,... put his name to this instrument.

1787
 * Benjamin Franklin, urging all member of the Constitutional Convention to agree to sign it.

 * In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appeared to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of the Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, and perhaps our national existence.

 * Delegate to the Constitutional Convention

1787

 * We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, and ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote our general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

 * Preamble, Constitution of the United States.

Against the Constitution
1788

 * After so recent a triumph over British despots,... it is truly astonishing that a set of men among ourselves should have had the effrontery to attempt the destruction of our liberties.

 * Letter from an opponent of the Constitution.

1787

 * For what did you throw off the yoke of Britain and call yourselves independent? Was it from a disposition fond of change, or to procure new masters?...  This new form of national government.... will be dangerous to your liberty and happiness.

 * “Cato” (probably Gov. George Clinton of New York).

1788

 * We contended with Great Britain ... because they claimed a right to tax us and bind s in all cases whatever. And does not this Constitution do the same?  Does it not take away all we have — all our property?  Does it not lay all taxes, duties, imposts, and excises?...   These lawyers, and men of learning, and moneyed men that talk so finely... to make us poor illiterate people swallow down the pill.... [They] expect to be managers of this Constitution, and get all the power and all the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folk.

 * Amos Singletary, an Anti-Federalist farmer from western Massachusetts.*

1788

 * You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, and jealous of your liberty; for if instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever....

 * What right had they to say, “We, the people”?.... Who authorized them to speak the language of “We, the people,” instead of “We, the states”?  States are... the soul of a confederation....

 * This government will... destroy the state governments and swallow the liberties of the people....

 * This Constitution is said to have beautiful features, but... they appear to me to be horribly frightful.... Your President may become king....  If your American chief be a man of ambition and abilities, how easy is it for him to render himself absolute!

 * Patrick Henry, speech attacking the Constitution, at the Virginia Ratifying Convention.

For the Constitution
1788

 * [A]n objection is made to the form: ‘We, the people’ is thought improper. Permit me to ask the gentleman who made this objection, who but the people can delegate powers?  Who but the people have a right to form government?

 * Edmund Pendleton, speech in Virginia Ratifying Convention.

1787

 * [The Federal Constitution is] the single greatest effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

 * John Adams, supporting the Constitution.

1788

 * This is a new event in the history of mankind. Heretofore, most governments have been formed by tyrants and imposed on mankind by force.  Never before did a people, in time of peace and tranquillity, meet together by their representatives and, with calm deliberation, frame for themselves a system of government.

 * Gov. Samuel Huntington of Connecticut, addressing the Connecticut ratification assembly.

1787

 * To the people of the State of New York:

 * After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America....  It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force....

 * It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force....

 * Yes, my countrymen,.... I am clearly of opinion it is in your interest to adopt it. I am convinced that this is the safest course for your liberty, your dignity, and your happiness.

 * Alexander Hamilton, writing as Publius, No. 1 of The Federalist, writing in favor of adopting the Federal Constitution, On the power of the people to establish governments.

1787

 * Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights, ir order to vest it with requisite powers....

 * It has often given me pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty.... With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence....

The Federalist No. 2 (John Jay), On the people giving up power to establish a government.

1788

 * The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it.... The more easily they will concert and execute their plans of oppression.  Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

 * James Madison, in Federalist No. 10.

1788

 * [I]n a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot.  A republic will be extended over a large region.

''The Federalist No. 14 (Madison). The differences between “republic” and “democracy”.''

1788

 * The principal purposes to be answered by union are these — the common defence of the members; the preservation of the public peace, as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.

''The Federalist No. 23 (Hamilton). The purposes of the new Constitution.''

1788

 * We may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is ESSENTIAL to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, njot from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it.

 * James Madison, writing as Publius, in Federalist Number 39.

1788

 * The federal and State governments are... designed for different purposes....  Many considerations... seem to place it beyond doubt that the first and most natural attachment of people will be to the governments of their respective States.  Into the administration of these a greater number of individuals will expect to rise....  With the affairs of these [government officials], the people will be more familiarly and minutely conversant.  And with... these [officials], will a greater portion of the people have the ties of personal acquaintance and friendship....  Measures will too often be decided according to their probable effect, not on the national prosperity and happiness, but on the prejudices, interests, and pursuits of the governments and people of individual States....

 * [A]mbitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would excite not only the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm.  Every [state] government would espouse the common cause....

''       The Federalist No. 46 (Madison). On the loyalty of the people to state or federal governments.''

1788

 * If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.  In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficult difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

 * James Madison, writing for the Constitution as Publius, in Federalist No. 51.

1788

wed the example....
 * In Great Britain it is the province of the House of Commons to prefer the impeachment, and of the House of Lords to decide upon it. Several of the State constitutions have follo

 * Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent? What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the representatives of the people, his accusers?

 * Could the Supreme Court have been relied upon as answering this description?.... The awful discretion which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons....

''The Federalist No. 65 (Hamilton). '' On impeachment

1788

 * [T]he election of the President is... not perfect, [but] it is at lease excellent.... The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.  Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require ither talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States.

''The Federalist No. 68 (Hamilton). On electing the president.''

1788

 * I have lived in a part of the country where I have learned the worth of good government by the lack of it. There was a black cloud of rebellion that rose in the east last winter and spread over the west....  Our distress was so great that we should have been glad to grab at anything that looked like a government....  Now when I saw this Constitution, I found it was a cure for these disorders.

 * A Western Massachusetts farmer who had witnessed Shay’s Rebellion, on why he supported the Constitution.

1788

 * Some gentlemen say, don’t be in a hurry..., don’t take a leap in the dark. I say... gather the fruit when it is ripe.  *

       A Federalist farmer, speaking in support of the Constitution at the Massachusetts ratifying convention.

1788

 * Anarchy leads to tyranny... These lawyers, these moneyed men, these men of learning, are all embarked in the same cause with us, and we must all sink or swim together.

 * A Western Massachusetts farmer who supported the Constitution.

1788

 * The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts.... It therefore belongs to them to ascertain... the meaning of any particular act....  The courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise WILL instead of JUDGMENT, the consequence would be... the substitution of their pleasure to that of the legislative body.

 * Alexander Hamilton, writing as Publius in Federalist Number 78, on one weakness of the Constitution: the possibility that the Federal Courts would become a super-legislature.

On the Need for a Bill of Rights
1788

 * A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth,... and what no government should refuse.

 * Thomas Jefferson, United States Minister to France, letter to James Madison

1788

 * I have seen the [Virginia] bill of rights violated in every instance where it has been exposed to a popular current.

 * James Madison, on why the checks and balances in the federal Constitution are a better safeguard for the rights of the people than a bill of rights.

1788

 * Such bills generally begin with declaring that all men are by natures born free. Now, we should make that declaration with very bad grace when a large part of our property consist in men who are actually born slaves.

 * Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina, on the conflict between a bill of rights and slavery.

1788.

 * ‘Tis done. We have become a nation.

 * Dr. Benjamin Rush, in a letter after a July 4th parade in Philadelphia celebrating the ratification of the Constitution.


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ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL WAR

THE LIFE OF SLAVES

???	“[The sweat box] was made the height of the person and no longer. Just large enough so the person didn’t have to be squeezed in. The box is nailed, and in summer is put in the hot sun; in winter it is put in the coldest, dampest place.” Prince Smith, former slave on a South Carolina plantation, describing the sweat box used for punishing slaves.

???	“[The whip was used] very frequently and freely, and a small offense on the part of the slave furnished an occasion for its use.” William Wells Brown, former slave and writer of the first novel by an African-American.

1831   	“We do not go forth for the sake of blood and carnage;... Remember that ours is not a war for robbery,... it is a struggle for freedom.” Slave rebel Nat Turner to his followers.

1841	“The afflicted mother... kept on begging and beseeching them, most piteously, not to separate the three. Over and over again she told them how she loved her boy.... But it was of no avail....  Then [the mother] ran to [her son and]... told him to remember her — all the while her tears falling in the boy’s face like rain....  It was a mournful scene indeed. I would have cried myself if I had dared.” Former slave Solomon Northup, recalling a slave sale that split a mother from her children.

????	“We are well convinced that there is nothing but the mere relations of husband and wife, parent and child, brother and sister which produces a closer tie than the relation of master and servant.... The slaves of a good master are his warmest, most constant, and most devoted friends; they have been accustomed to look up to him as their supporter, director, and defender.” 	Professor Thomas R. Dew of William and Mary University, Williamsburg, Virginia.

c. 1850

Farewell, old master

Don’t come after me.

I’m on my way to Canada

Where colored men are free.”

Song of slaves on the Underground Railroad, to the tune of “Oh, Susanna”

1851	“The great gentlemen and the rich folks went freely up the steps and through the door and shook hands with him. Now, did Christ come in this way? Dis he come only to the rich? Did He shake hands only with them? No! Blessed be the Lord! He came to the poor! He came to us, and for our sakes, my brothers and sisters!” Rev. Bentley, a black minister in Savannah, Georgia, describing a visit to his church by President Millard Fillmore.

1860  	“Master had over a hundred head of cows and most of the time me and Violet, another house girl, did all the milking. We was up before five. By five we better be in that cow pen. We better milk all of them cows too or they’s bull-whip us.” Katie Darling, interview in 1937 about her life as an 11-year old-slave.

THE ORIGINS OF ANTISLAVERY

1791

“Sir, suffer me to recall to your mind that time in which the arms and tyranny of the British Crown were exerted with every powerful effort in order to reduce you to a State of Servitude, look back I entreat you on the variety of dangers to which you were exposed....

“This, sir, was a time in which you clearly saw into the injustice of a state of slavery and in which you had just apprehensions of the horrors of its condition, it was now, sir, that your abhorrence thereof was so excited, that you publickly held forth this true and valuable doctrine, which is worthy to be recorded and remembered in all succeeding ages, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”....

“”But, sir, how pitiable is it to reflect that although you were os convinced of the benevolence of the Father of mankind and of his equal and impartial distribution of those rights and privileges which he had conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act which you professedly detested in others with respect to yourselves.”

	Benjamin Banneker, letter to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson (August 19, 1791).

CONFLICT BETWEEN SLAVERY AND ANTISLAVERY

The Abolitionists

1831   	“I will be harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice....  I am in earnest.... I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I WILL BE HEARD.” William Lloyd Garrison, in the first issue of his antislavery newspaper, The Liberator.

1834  	 “More than fifty-seven years have passed since a band of patriots convened in this place to devise measures for the deliverance of this country from a foreign yoke....   We have met together for the achievement of an enterprise, without which that of our fathers is incomplete.... “Their measures were physical resistance — the marshaling in arms, the hostile array, the mortal encounter. Ours shall be such as only the opposition of moral purity to moral corruption — the destruction of error by the potency of truth, the overthrow of prejudice by the power of love, and the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance....” 	Declaration of the American Antislavery Society

1841	“I ask nothing more in behalf of these unfortunate men than this Declaration.” ''Former President John Quincy Adams, arguing before the United States Supreme Court. He called on the Court to apply the principles of the Declaration of Independence and set free Joseph Cinque and about 50 others who took over the Spanish slave ship Amistad in 1839 and sailed it to New London, Connecticut. The Court agreed to set them free.''

1845

“The object of the American Anti-Slavery Society is the ‘entire abolition of slavery in the United States.’ Of course its duty is to find out all the sources of pro-slavery influence in the land. It is its right, it is its duty to try every institution every institution in the land, no matter how venerable or sacred, by the touchstone of anti-slavery principle....

“The history of our Union is lesson enough, for every candid mind, of the fatal effects of every, the least, compromise with evil. The experience of the fifty years passed under it shows us the slaves trebling in numbers, slaveholders monopolizing the offices and dictating the policy of the government, prostituting the strength and influence of the nation to the support of slavery here and elsewhere, trampling on the rights of the free states and making the courts of the country their tools. To continue this disastrous alliance longer is madness. The trial of fifty years only proves that it is impossible for free and slave states to unite on any terms without all becoming partners in the guilt and responsible for the sin of slavery. Why prolong the experiment? Let every honest man join in the outcry of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

“No Union with slaveholders!”

Abolitionist leader Wendell Phillips, “Can Abolitionists Vote?”

1854

“I said I had never in my life suffered from the slave institution. Slavery in Virginia or Carolina was like slavery in Africa or the Fijis for me. There was an old Fugitive Law, but it had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter, and, by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new bill made it operative, made me to hunt slaves, and it found citizens in Massachusetts willing to act as judges and captors. Moreover, it discloses the secret of the new times, that slavery was no longer mendicant but was become aggressive and dangerous.

“The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this... was the darkest passage in the history [of the US]. It showed that our prosperity had hurt us and that we could not be shocked by crime. It showed that the old religion and the sense of right had faded and gone out; that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation, our bellies had run away with our brains, and the principles of culture and progress did not exist [here].”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, speech in New York on the Fugitive Slave Law

1855   	“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’  When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners and Catholics.’  When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” Abraham Lincoln, letter to his friend Speed

1856   	“In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but what will acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country.” ''U.S. Army Lt.Col. Robert E. Lee of Virginia, letter to his wife''

The Voice of African-Americans

1827	“Freedom’s Journal” Title of the first African-American newspaper, published in New York by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, who called on whites to free “their brother in chains.”

1829	“Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World” Title of a pamphlet by David Walker, a Boston businessman and free black, who called for immediate abolition of slavery.

???	“America is my home, my country, and I have no other.... I mourn because the accursed shade of slavery rests upon it. I love my country’s flag, and I hope that soon it will be cleansed of its stains, and be hailed by all nations as the emblem of freedom and independence.” Henry Highland Garnet, a black abolitionist, opposing the plans of the American Colonization Society to send freed blacks to Africa, such as Liberia, which received only 1,400 migrants by 1831.

1847	“He who has endured the cruel pangs of Slavery is the man to advocate Liberty.” Frederick Douglass, editorial in the first issue of the North Star, his antislavery newspaper in Rochester, New York.

1857  	“This infamous decision maintains that slaves... are property in the same sense that horses, sheep, and swine are property.... [and] that [people] of African descent are not and cannot be citizens of the United States.....  All I ask of the American people is that they live up to the Constitution, adopt its principles,... and enforce its provisions. When this is done... liberty... will become the inheritance of all the inhabitants of this highly favored country.” Frederick Douglass, speech opposing the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case. Pro-Slavery Southern Opposition

1837

“We must meet the enemy on the frontier, with a fixed determination of maintaining our position at every hazard. Consent to receive these insulting petitions, and the next demand will be that they be referred to a committee in order that they be deliberated and acted upon....

“Abolition and the Union cannot exist. As the friend of the Union, I openly proclaim it, and the sooner it is known the better. The former may now be controlled, but in a short time it will be beyond the power of man to arrest the course of events.”

John C. Calhoun, (D-SC), Speech in the U.S. Senate opposing acceptance of petitions opposing slavery.

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH

The Compromise of 1850

1848	“Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men” Slogan of the anti-slavery Free Soil party, formed by Whigs and Democrats opposed to the expansion of slavery in August 1848.

1850

“I think that the constitution of the thirteen states was made not merely for the generation which then existed but for posterity, undefined, unlimited, permanent, and perpetual; for their posterity; and for every subsequent state which might come into the Union, binding themselves by that indissoluble bond....

“The dissolution of the Union and war are identical and inseparable; they are convertible terms....

“I conjure gentlemen, whether from the South or the North, by all they old dear in this world, by all their live of liberty, by all their veneration for their ancestors, by all their regard for posterity, by all their gratitude to Him who has bestowed upon them such unnumbered blessings, by all the duties which they owe mankind and all the duties they owe to themselves, by all these considerations I implore them to pause — solemnly to pause — at the edge of the precipice before the fearful and disastrous leap is taken in the yawning abyss below which will inevitably lead to certain and irretrievable destruction.”

Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, speech in the Senate urging acceptance of the Compromise of 1850 (February 6, 1850).

1850

“We are now arrived at that stage of our national progress when crisis can be foreseen — when we must foresee it. It is directly before us. Its shadow is upon us. It darkens the legislative halls, the temples of worship, and the home and the hearth. Every question, political, civil, or ecclesiastical — however foreign to the subject of slavery — brings up slavery.... We hear of nothing but slavery, and we talk of nothing but slavery....

“It is insisted that the admission of California shall be attended by a compromise of questions which have arisen out of slavery. I am opposed to any such compromise.... I think all legislative compromises radically wrong and essentially vicious....

“There is a higher law than the Constitution which relegates our authority over the domain and devotes it to... noble purposes.

Sen. William H. Seward, Senate speech

1850	“If something decisive is not now done... the South will be forced to choose between abolition and secession.... The responsibility of saving the Union rests with the North, and not the South.” ''Speech of the mortally-ill Sen. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, who had to be carried into the Senate during the debate on March 4. His words had to be read by another senator.'' 1850	“I speak today not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American.... I speak today for the preservation of the Union.... There can be no such thing as peaceable secession.” Sen. Daniel Webster, speaking on March 7, supporting the Compromise of 1850.

1850  	“The South! The poor South! God knows what will become of her now!” Sen. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, deathbed comment on the Compromise of 1850.

	The Fugitive Slave Law

185?	“We saw... a man on horseback riding at a quick pace, & by his side a tall negro coming steadily along. We wondered at the perfect uniformity of his steps — until, as they came nearer us, we saw one chain going from his wrists to his ankles — giving him just room enough to walk — following them were two large thick-headed fierce-looking dogs.” Caroline Seabury, a Massachusetts teacher, after observing a slave being returned according the Fugitive Slave Law.

185?	“We have submitted to slavery long enough, and must not stand it any longer.... I am done catching negroes for the South.” Amos A. Lawrence, a northern Democrat.

Bleeding Kansas

1854	“[Kansas will] be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.” ''Passage in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, introduced by Senator Stephen A. Douglas (Democrat-Illinois), and passed in May 1854. This passage summarizes Douglas’ idea of “popular sovereignty”.''

1854	“[The Kansas-Nebraska Act is] part of the great scheme for extending and perpetuating the supremacy of the Slave Power.” The New York Times

c. 1855 “I am opposed to slavery not because it is a misery to the downtrodden and oppressed, but that it blights and mildews the white man whose lot is toil, and whose capital is labor.” Western newspaper editorial opposing the activities of the Slavers in Kansas.

c. 1855 “We are playing for a mighty stake. If we win, we carry slavery to the Pacific Ocean.” Sen. David Atchinson (Democrat-Missouri)

1856

“On the undersigned, managers of the “Lafayette Emigration Society,” has devolved the important duty of calling the attention of the people of the slaveholding states to the absolute necessity of immediate action on their part in relation to the settlement of Kansas Territory. The crisis is at hand. Prompt and defensive measures must be adopted, or farewell to Southern rights and independence.

“The Western counties of Missouri have, for the last two years, been heavily taxed, both in money and time, in fighting the battles of the South. Lafayette County alone has expended more than $100,000....  But the Abolitionists, staking all upon the Kansas issue, and hesitating at no means, fair or foul, are moving heaven and earth to render that beautiful territory not only a free state, so-called, but a den of Negro thieves and ‘higher law’ incendiaries....

“How, then can these impending evils be avoided? The answer is obvious. Settle the territory with emigrants from the South....

“Is it in the nature of Southern men to submit without resistance, to look to the North for their laws and institutions? We do not believe it!”

Petition of the Lafayette Emigration Society in the Southern magazine, DeBow’s Review

1856	“Slavery now stands erect, clanking its chains on the territory of Kansas, surrounded by a code of death, and trampling upon all cherished liberties.... It has been done for the sake of political power, in order to bring two new slaveholding senators to this floor.” ''Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, “Crime Against Kansas” speech in the U. S. Senate (May 19-20, 1856). In the speech, Sumner attacked Sen. Andrew Butler (Democrat-South Carolina); two days later, Butler’s cousin, Rep. Preston Brooks (Democrat-South Carolina), attacked with his cane and severely beat Sumner on the floor of the Senate.'' 1856	“[The beating of Sen. Sumner by Rep. Brooks] made Abolitionists of those who never dreamed they were drifting into it.” Whig Congressional leader David Davis.

1856	“[The Kansas-Nebraska Act is] the only sound and safe solution of the slavery question.” 	From the 1856 presidential election platform of the Democratic Party.

1856	“Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Men, Frémont, and Victory” 1856 presidential election campaign slogan of the new Republican Party, running Gen. John C. Frémont as its presidential candidate.

1856	“Slavery and Freesoilism can never be reconciled. Our enemies have been defeated — not vanquished. A majority of the free States have declared war against the South, upon a purely sectional issue, and in the remainder of them, formidable minorities fiercely contend for victory under the same banner. The triumph of this geographical party must dissolve this confederacy, unless we are prepared to sink down into a state of acknowledged inferiority. We will act wisely to employ the interval of repose afforded by the late [presidential] election [in which Democrat James Buchanan of Pennsylvania was elected], in earnest preparation for the inevitable conflict. The Southern States have never demanded more than equality and security. They cannot submit to less, and remain in the Union, without dishonor and ultimate ruin.” Governor James H. Adams, Governor’s Message to the State legislature (November 24, 1856)

The Dred Scott Decision

1857	“This atrocious decision furnishes final confirmation of the already-known fact that, under the Constitution and government of the United States, the colored people are nothing but an alien, disfranchised, and degraded class.” African American leader Robert Purvis, at a rally protesting the Dred Scott decision.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (August-October 1858)

1858	“I do not believe it is a constitutional right to hold slaves in a territory of the United States.” Abraham Lincoln, speaking against the Dred Scott decision.

1858

“It matters not what way the Supreme Court may... decide.... The people have the lawful means to introduce [slavery] or exclude it as they may please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist... unless it is supported by local police regulations....

“Mr. Lincoln tries to avoid the main issue by attacking the truth of my proposition, that our fathers made this government divided into slave and free states, recognizing the right of each to decide all its local questions for itself. Did they not thus make it? It is true that they did not establish slavery in any of them; but, finding thirteen state, twelve of which were slave and one free, they agreed to form a government uniting them together as they stood, divided into free and slave states, and to guarantee forever to each state the right to do as it pleased on the slavery question. Having thus made the government and conferred this right upon each state forever, I assert that this government can exist as they made it, divided into free and slave states, if any one state chooses to retain slavery.” Sen. Stephen A. Douglas (D-Illinois), in his debates with Lincoln, downplaying the Dred Scott decision and stating his doctrine of “Popular Sovereignty.”

1858  	“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.” Abraham Lincoln, speech at the Illinois State Republican Convention

John Brown’s Raid (October 16-18, 1859)

1859

“This court acknowledges,... as I suppose, the validity of the law of God..... I believe that to have interfered (acted) as I have done... in behalf of His despised poor is no wrong, but right.

“Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and withe blood of millions in the slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments — I say, let it be done!”

	John Brown, speech at his trial for attacking Harpers Ferry, Virginia

1859	“Remember that if I must die I die in trying to liberate a few of my poor and oppressed people from my condition of servitude.... I imagine that I hear you, and all of you, mother, father, sisters, and brothers, say — ‘No, there is not a cause for which we, with less sorrow, could see you die.’” John Copeland, an African American, one of six men convicted of treason against Virginia alongside John Brown, in a letter to his family before his execution.

	The Presidential Election of 1860 1860  	“The North is accumulating power, and it means to use that power [for emancipation].... When that is done, no pen can describe, no tongue can depict, no pencil can point the horrors that will overspread this country.... Disunion is a fearful thing, but emancipation is worse.” Mississippi Senator Albert Gallatin Brown.

1860	“In my judgment, the election of no man, constitutionally chosen to that high office, is sufficient cause for any state to separate from the Union.... Whatever fate is to befall this country, let it never to be laid to the charge of the people of the South... that we were untrue to our national engagements.” ''Sen. Alexander Stephens (Democrat-Georgia), speaking against secession to the Georgia legislature. Stephens later became the Vice President of the Confederate States.''


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The World After the Cold War

The Kuwait War (1990-1991)

1991	The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated. We’re seeing bright flashes going off all over the sky. CNN correspondent Bernard Shaw, reporting from Baghdad on the start of the air phase of Operation Desert Storm (January 16, 1991).

1991	The world could wait no longer.... While the world waited, Saddam Hussein met every overture of peace with open contempt. President George H. W. Bush (January 16, 1991)

	What Will the New World Look Like?

1989	America is to entertainment what... Saudi Arabia is to oil. The Economist.

1991	Now we can see... the very real prospect of a new world order, a world in which freedom and a respect for human rights find a home among all nations. President George H. W. Bush

1992	Just as wars — two World Wars and, equally important, the Cold War — dominated the geopolitical map of the 20th century, economics will rule over the 21st. All the big questions confronting the world in the century ahead are basically economic. Journalist Bruce W. Nelan

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD?

1991	The defense of freedom and the promotion of democracy around the world aren’t merely a reflection of our deepest values; they are vital to our national interests. Global democracy means nations at peace with one another, open to one another’s ideas and one another’s commerce. Former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. 1992	It was, it is, an unparalleled situation in history, one which presents us with the rarest opportunities to shape the world to do so wisely. President George H. W. Bush and National Security Brent Scowcroft in A World Transformed, the statement of national security strategy.

1993	We know that it’s not just the United States, no wealthy country in the world today can create new jobs without expanding trade. It cannot be done. President Bill Clinton, speech supporting passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which removed trade barriers between The United States, Canada, and Mexico (October 20, 1993).

1993	In the post-Cold War world, we will no longer require our people to carry an unfair burden for the rest of humanity. Representative Dana Rorabacher (Republican-California)

1995	The United States must lead, period. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (Republican-Georgia).

9/11

2001	I see water and buildings.... Oh, my God! ''Final words of Madeline Amy Sweeney, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, calling her supervisor in Boston on a cell phone in the plane’s galley, as the plane headed down the Hudson River toward New York City. Moments later, at 8:46 A.M., Islamic terrorists crashed the plane into the 96th floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center.''

2001	Let’s roll. ''Final words of Todd Beamer, a passenger on the American Airlines Flight 93 that was crash-landed in western Pennsylvania. Beamer led passengers -- who had learned of the other plane crashes on 9/11 -- in an attack on the terrorist hijackers, preventing them from crashing the plane into either the White House or the capitol in Washington.''

2001	We have a lot of heroes and we lost a lot of good people. New York City firefighter after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.

2001	The New York City firefighters who lost their lives will be remembered among the greatest heroes of American history. Like the brave soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy and those who raised the flag over Iwo Jima, our firefighters... gave their lives defending our liberty. Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New York on September 11, 2001, in Brotherhood.

2001	We are all Americans Headline in the French newspaper Le Monde, the day following the attacks of 9/11.

2001	al Qaeda “The Base” (name of the Islamic terrorist organization headed by Osama bin Laden, which was responsible for the attacks of 9/11).

2001	On September the eleventh, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country. Americans have known wars — but for the past 136 years, they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941. Americans have known the casualties of war — but not at the center of a great city on a peaceful morning. Americans have known surprise attacks — but never before on thousands of civilians. All of this was brought upon us in a single day — and night fell on a different world, a world in which freedom itself is under attack.... The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics — a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam.... This group [al-Qaeda] and its leader, a person named Osama bin Laden, are linked to many other organizations in different countries.... [The terrorists] hate what they see right here in this chamber — a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms — our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.... This is not, however, just America’s fight. This is civilization’s fight. This is the fight of all who believe in progress and pluralism, tolerance, and freedom.... The civilized world is rallying to America’s side. They understand that if this terror goes unpunished, their own cities, their own citizens may be next. Terror, unanswered, can not only bring down buildings, it can threaten the stability of legitimate governments.... I ask you to uphold the values of America, and remember why so many have come here. We are in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.... We have seen the state of our union in the endurance of rescuers working past exhaustion. We’ve seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.... The entire world has seen the state of our union, and it is strong. Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or justice to our enemies, justice will be done.... Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, and nation that continues to harbor of support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.... Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered great loss. And in our grief and anger we have found our mission and our moment. Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom — the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time — now depends on us. Our Nation — this generation — will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause, by our efforts and by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. ''Pres. George W. Bush, address before a joint session of Congress nine days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks (September 20, 2001).''

2001	GWOT Global War on Terror (term used by the Department of Defense).

2001	Our spirit is unbroken. In fact, it is stronger than ever. Today we reaffirm our faith in the essential dignity of every individual. What we share as Americans and as human beings is far greater than what divides us. Actor James Earl Jones (voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars) and former U.S. Army officer, in a prayer service after 9/11 (September 23, 2001).

2002	Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our watch — yet it must be and it will be waged on our watch. ''Pres. Bush, 2002 State of the Union address (January 29, 2002)''

2004	The terrorists continue to plot against America and the civilized world.... We must continue to give homeland security and law enforcement personnel every tool they need to defend us. And one of those essential tools is the Patriot Act, which allows federal law enforcement to better share information, to track terrorists, to disrupt our cells, and to seize their assets. ''President George W. Bush, State of the Union address (January 20, 2004). ''


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