"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments."

Man, Men, Power, Democracy, Race

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"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments."

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"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."

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"Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit."

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"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."

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