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"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."
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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."
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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."
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"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"
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"A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies."
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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"
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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
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"To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you."
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"Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service."
Family
"And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood."
Inspirational
"Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them."
Man
"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."
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"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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"John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection."
History
"I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years."
Time
"In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time."
Time
"Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none."
Family
"It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors."
Wealth
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