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The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by...more

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These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment … cross over into Ohio...more

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The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions, no other...more

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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

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It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not fre...more

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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

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A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but little time and attention. His task would keep his m...more

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Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

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He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he prete...more