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"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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"The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right."

"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."
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"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."

"I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."

"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."

"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."

"Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man."

"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."

"The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected."

"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."
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