Aristocracy is always cruel.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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