"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."

Government, Slavery, Wrong

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"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."

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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

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