"Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens."

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"Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens."

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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself."

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"Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous."

Man

"They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued."

Time

"It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men."

Man

"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"

Public

"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time."

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"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."

Man

"If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?"

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"The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?"

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"Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself."

Virtue

"Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections."

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