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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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