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"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."
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
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"I am a man of few words, but many riddles."
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"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."
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"I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery."
Man
"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."
Body
"You can never conquer us, we will die first."
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"But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it."
Duty
"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."
Heart
"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."
Man
"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."
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"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."
Darkness
"We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us."
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