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Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence.

— Ulysses S. Grant Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee (1875)

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I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit.

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