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Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" — infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

— Wendell Phillips Attributed

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In God's world there are no majorities, no minorities; one, on God's side, is a majority.

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.

He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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