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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty ...

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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighb...

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Carl Schurz

Former U.S. Senator

Born: 1829-03-02

Died: 1906-05-14

Carl Christian Schurz (2 March 1829 – 14 May 1906) was a German revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He immigrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–49 and became a prominent member of the new Republican Party. After serving as a Union general in the American Civil War, he helped found the short-lived Liberal Republican Party and became a prominent advocate of civil service reform. Schurz represented Missouri in the United States Senate and was the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.More