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Adin Ballou Quotes

1803–1890 United States

Adin Ballou (23 April 1803 – 5 August 1890) was an American Unitarian minister, abolitionist and pacifist.

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Also known as: Ballou, Adin

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But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

How many does it take to annul the commandments of God, and render that lawful, which HE has forbidden? How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adin Ballou (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.