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"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."

"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

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"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."
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"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."

"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."
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