"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."
― Robert Toombs
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Equality
More From Robert Toombs
- "Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments."
- "The North understand it better – they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits – surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death."
- "Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours."
More In Equality
- "All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."― Bob Dylan
- "Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits."― Mike Honda
- "His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall."― James M. Barrie