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The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.
- James L. Petigru
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No one supposes that the government of the United States is supreme, beyond the sphere plainly defined by the constitution: Neither does any one deny that the State is supreme within its proper sphere of action.
- James L. Petigru
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The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.
- James L. Petigru
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South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
- James L. Petigru
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