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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
— Edward Abbey
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Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the…
— Howard Zinn
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Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
— Alice Duer Miller
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We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with…
— Jefferson Davis
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that…
— Leo Tolstoy
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