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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
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"I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear."

"I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up."

"I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men."

"I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them."

"I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road."

"If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free."

"To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together."
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