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AP U.S. History Quotes

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






2. 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






3. Vote or Die.






4. Taxation without representation is tyranny






5. America for Americans!






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






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






8. 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?






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






10. all we ask is to be let alone






11. 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)






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






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






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






15. 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)






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






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






18. The only goodIndian is a deadIndian






19. Remember the Ladies






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






21. Vote or Die.






22. Remember the Ladies






23. Who is James K. Polk?






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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






31. He that will not work - shall not eat






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






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






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






35. ...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)






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






37. penny saved is a penny earned






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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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?






43. all we ask is to be let alone






44. Taxation without representation is tyranny






45. He that will not work - shall not eat






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






47. ...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)






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






49. Who is James K. Polk?






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