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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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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

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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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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

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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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Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

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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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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

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There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards the same end. I allude to ...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