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AP U.S. History Quotes

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1. We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of right?






2. Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream






3. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one. Government - like dress - is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.






4. For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill (and that) the eyes of all people are upon us...






5. Free Soil - Free Labor Free Speech - Free Men - and Fremont






6. penny saved is a penny earned






7. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.






8. God who gave us life - gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are a gift of God? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - and that His justice cannot sle






9. all we ask is to be let alone






10. John Marshall has made his choice - now let him enforce it






11. We have an illness only gold will cure (speech to Montezuma)






12. Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream






13. I know not what course others may take - but as for me - give me liberty or give me death!






14. In all things purely social we can be as separate as fingers - yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress (Atlanta Compromise Speech)






15. Log Cabin and hard Cider - Van Van He's a used up man! - Tippecanoe and Tyler Too! - Polk - 5440 or Fight! Re-annexation of Texas and Re-occupation of Oregon






16. Millions for Defense! But not one cent for tribute (XYZ affair)






17. In all things purely social we can be as separate as fingers - yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress (Atlanta Compromise Speech)






18. The only goodIndian is a deadIndian






19. He that will not work - shall not eat






20. you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thrones - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold (Dem. nomination)






21. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union - and is not either to save or to destroy slavery -letter






22. Take away the heritage of a people - and they are easily persuaded.






23. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union - and is not either to save or to destroy slavery -letter






24. Take away the heritage of a people - and they are easily persuaded.






25. ...We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation - under God - shall have a new birth of freedom; and that gov of the people - by the people - shall not perish from the earth (Gettysburg Address)






26. I know not what course others may take - but as for me - give me liberty or give me death!






27. We have an illness only gold will cure (speech to Montezuma)






28. Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.






29. Who is James K. Polk?






30. He that will not work - shall not eat






31. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men and women are created equal -Seneca Falls Convention






32. penny saved is a penny earned






33. For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill (and that) the eyes of all people are upon us...






34. Taxation without representation is tyranny






35. ON the first day of January in the Year of our Lord - one thousand and eight hundred and sixty three - all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state - the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States






36. Vote or Die.






37. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men and women are created equal -Seneca Falls Convention






38. Free Soil - Free Labor Free Speech - Free Men - and Fremont






39. Taxation without representation is tyranny






40. America for Americans!






41. Go West - young man - and grow up with the country






42. ON the first day of January in the Year of our Lord - one thousand and eight hundred and sixty three - all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state - the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States






43. all we ask is to be let alone






44. America for Americans!






45. ...We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation - under God - shall have a new birth of freedom; and that gov of the people - by the people - shall not perish from the earth (Gettysburg Address)






46. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.






47. Go West - young man - and grow up with the country






48. We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of right?






49. Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.






50. John Marshall has made his choice - now let him enforce it