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When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
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If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
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