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AP U.S. History Quotes

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1. 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






2. 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)






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






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






5. 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






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






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






8. He that will not work - shall not eat






9. America for Americans!






10. penny saved is a penny earned






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






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






13. Remember the Ladies






14. 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






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






16. 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)






17. Who is James K. Polk?






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






19. 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.






20. 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?






21. all we ask is to be let alone






22. Taxation without representation is tyranny






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






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






25. America for Americans!






26. The only goodIndian is a deadIndian






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






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






29. 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






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






31. Vote or Die.






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






33. ...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)






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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. Taxation without representation is tyranny






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






41. The only goodIndian is a deadIndian






42. 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)






43. 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






44. We are all Federalists - we are all Republicans..






45. penny saved is a penny earned






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






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






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






49. We are all Federalists - we are all Republicans..






50. Vote or Die.