#confederacy

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness. ↗

— Joseph C. Morecraft III

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Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

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Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. ↗

— Corrine Brown

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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

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You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent. ↗

— John Brough

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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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