"The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South."
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"No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report."
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"Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system."
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"While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free."
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"We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings."
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"America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man."
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"The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union."
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"It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die."
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"I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government."
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"We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past."
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"Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come."
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"The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us."
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"Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense."
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"No man can be just who is not free."
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"No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign capitals and in foreign centres of commerce."
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"The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty."
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"Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing natures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning."
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"A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him."
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"Movies are like writing history with lightning."
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"My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity."
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