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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."

"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."

"The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite."

"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."

"You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it."
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"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."


"Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors."


"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."


"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."
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