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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."
"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."
"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."
"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."
"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."
"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."
"My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people."
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"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."
"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
"He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third."
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
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