Robert Toombs
Robert Toombs
Robert Augustus Toombswas an American politician who was a founding father of the Confederacy and its first Secretary of State...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 July 1810
CountryUnited States of America
justice special favors
They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
independent equality government
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
ordinary-extraordinary quiet human-nature
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.
rights hands long
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
blood sweat brave
Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
war ocean mountain
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.