Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. -Robert Toombs Equality
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. -Robert Toombs Equality
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. -Robert Toombs Independence
