
Last public speech before his death, Chicago, Illinois (1 May 1861)
1860s
Speech (1860)
Last public speech before his death, Chicago, Illinois (1 May 1861)
1860s
Responding to a question at his press conference (February 28, 1947); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1947, p. 191
As quoted in "Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols: Oklahoma Bombing" (2010), TruTv.
“Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.”
Quoted in "The Second Attack on Pearl Harbor" - Page 201 - by Steve Horn - History - 2005.
Letter to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, Philadelphia bookseller (1814) who had been prosecuted for selling the book Sur la Création du Monde, un Systême d'Organisation Primitive by M. de Becourt, which Jefferson himself had purchased.
1810s
Context: I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.
“A revolutionary war against a modern metropolitan state can only be fought in hell.”
"Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest" (1988–9), in Fanged Noumena, p. 79
Conclusion
1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)
Context: The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that 'A state half slave and half free cannot exist.' All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
Bill Whittle's speech https://vimeo.com/55934224 at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's 2012 Restoration Weekend on Nov. 15-18, 2012.
2010s
"Fethullah Gulen: I Condemn All Threats to Turkey’s Democracy", 2016