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This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant los...more

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Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave t...more

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A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

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I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a reli...more

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There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only ...more

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I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men...more