"The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important."

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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."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."

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