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| | andrewrogers.net: Freedom Quote of the Week, February 9, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The South was the last stronghold of European civilization in the western hemisphere, a conservative check upon the restless expansiveness of the industrial North, and the South had to go. |
 | | The South was permanently old-fashioned, backward-looking, slow, contented to live upon a modest conquest of nature, unwilling to conquer the earth's resources for the fun of the conquest; contented, in short, to take only what man needs; unwilling to juggle the needs of man in the illusory pursuit of abstract wealth. |
 | | The War between the States was the second and decisive struggle of the Western spirit against the European -- the spirit of restless aggression against a stable spirit of ordered economy -- and the Western won." -- Allen Tate, Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall, a Biographical Narrative. |
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