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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Politics

"The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Politics

"Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Politics

"There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Politics

"A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Politics

"I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Politics

"There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition."

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