"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

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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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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind."

Alexis Carrel, French Scientist

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"The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them."

Camille Paglia, American Author

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"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

Gene Fowler, American Journalist

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"I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him."

John Buford, American Soldier

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"Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free."

Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

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"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."

Maria Callas, American Musician

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

Peace

"But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts."

Love

"I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society."

Society

"God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men."

Power

"The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him."

God

"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."

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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."

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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."

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"When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning."

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"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."

God