And if this house is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and — Caleb Cushing
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception — Caleb Cushing
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question — Caleb Cushing
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one — Caleb Cushing
Men of virginia, countrymen of washington, of patrick henry, of jefferson, and of madison — Caleb Cushing
Men of new england, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your puritan forefathers. — Caleb Cushing
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave — Caleb Cushing
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition — Caleb Cushing
Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this house observe the principles of that democracy — Caleb Cushing
Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with — Caleb Cushing
Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement — Caleb Cushing
The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of england, which runs in our veins. — Caleb Cushing
The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the people by the constitution — Caleb Cushing
The normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them — Caleb Cushing
The proceedings of this house in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade — Caleb Cushing
This republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. — Caleb Cushing
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with — Caleb Cushing
The winged words uttered in this house have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil. — Caleb Cushing
Upon the constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the people, as understood in this — Caleb Cushing
You well know, sir, that when the constitution was submitted to the people of the respective — Caleb Cushing
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in europe, to found this great republic in america — Caleb Cushing
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the pyramids. — Caleb Cushing