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Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

— Henry Morton Stanley

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Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow.

We have attacked and destroyed 28 large towns, and 3 or 4 score villages.

I desire some generous and opulent philanthropist, who shall permit me a force for commerce in central Africa.

The recitals of atrocities and bad administrations which have of late been spread about are almost all, if not all, pure reports.

The barge was an invention of my own. It was 40 feet long, 6 feet beam, and 30 inches deep, of Spanish cedar 3/8 inches thick.

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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Winston Churchill

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George Orwell

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