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"As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty " to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
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"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
"I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No-when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
"To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary."
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."
"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
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