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"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
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"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."
Boredom

"If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack."
Universe

"What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action."
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"Aristocracy is always cruel."
Tradition

"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."
Business

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
Government

"The keener the want the lustier the growth."
Growth

"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms."
Thought

"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."
Friendship
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