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Gerrit Smith

"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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"Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival."

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"Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen."

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"Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles."

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"We have met the enemy and he is us."

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"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."

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"Better is the enemy of good."

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"The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head."

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"The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to."

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"Keep your enemies in front of you."

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"I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw."

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"I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric."
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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."
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"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
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"It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed."
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"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."
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"Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance."
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"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."
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"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."
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"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."
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"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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