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"That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous."

"To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat."

"If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know."

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."

"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."

"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question."

"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

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

"The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction."

"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic."

"Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy, those who had anything united in common terror."

"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."

"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."

"Patriotism is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment."
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