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- Amereka amanyɛnyi (fat)
- Amerika amanyɔni (tw)
- Amerikaans politicus (nl)
- Amerikalı siyasetçi (tr)
- Amerikos politikas (lt)
- Olóṣèlú (yo)
- US-amerikaanschen Politiker (nds)
- amerikāņu politiķis (lv)
- politicien américain (fr)
- politiko merikano (pap)
- yhdysvaltalainen poliitikko (fi)
- Amerika nira ŋun baŋsim ziligi alikaale tali puuni ka o nyɛ doo (dag)
- amerikansk diplomat og politikar (nn)
- amerikansk diplomat og politiker (da)
- سیاستمدار و دیپلمات آمریکایی (fa)
- அமெரிக்க அரசியல்வாதி (ta)
- سياسي ومحامي أمريكي (ar)
- Αμερικάνος δικηγόρος και πολιτικός (el)
- usona politikisto, senatano kaj ministro pri eksterlandaj aferoj (eo)
- político estadounidense anterior a la guerra de secesión (es)
- americký právník a politik (cs)
- amerikai politikus, szenátor (hu)
- amerikansk diplomat och politiker (sv)
- politico statunitense nato nel 1782 (it)
- ameriški politik, ameriški senator in državni sekretar (1782–1852) (sl)
- US-amerikanischer Politiker, Senator und Außenminister (de)
- американский политик, государственный секретарь США (1841-1843, 1850-1852) (ru)
- 14th and 19th United States Secretary of State (1782–1852) (en)
- מדינאי אמריקני (iw)
- 美國第十四及第十九任國務卿 (lzh)
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- When my eyes shall be turned to behold
for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the
broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States
dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or
drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and
lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic... not a stripe
erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto,
no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?" nor those
other words of delusion and folly, "Liberty first and Union afterwards";
but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing
on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land,
and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to
every true American heart,— Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one
and inseparable! (en)
- "This, sir, is my case. It is the case not merely of that humble institution, it is the case of every college in our land... Sir, you may destroy this little institution; it is weak; it is in your hands! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out. But if you do so you must carry through your work! You must extinguish, one after another, all those greater lights of science which for more than a century have thrown their radiance over our land. It is, sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!" (en)
- Secession! Peaceable secession! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion! .... There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession. Peaceable secession is an utter impossibility .... We could not separate the states by any such line if we were to draw it .... (en)
- If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble to dust; but if we work on men's immortal minds, if we impress on them with high principles, the just fear of God and love for their fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity. (en)
- I shall stand by the Union...with absolute disregard of personal consequences. What are personal consequences...in comparison with the good or evil that may befall a great country in a crisis like this?...Let the consequences be what they will.... No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and constitution of his country. (en)
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