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"The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."
Death
"The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead."
People
"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
Truth
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
Man
"I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!"
Will
"You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights."
Government
"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"
Opinion
"That which is not just is not law."
Law
"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!"
Persistence
"The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers."
Success
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