"Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark."
"Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people."
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Source: Sermon at Music Hall, Boston, Mass., 4 July 1858 See Lincoln 42; Theodore Parker 1; Daniel Webster 5
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