Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are…

- Robert Toombs

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

- Robert Toombs

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected …

- Robert Toombs

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

- Robert Toombs

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, u…

- Robert Toombs

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 n…

- Robert Toombs

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and fir…

- Robert Toombs

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Governmen…

- Robert Toombs

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

- Robert Toombs