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believe mean men
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
character utterance revelations
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
lying character evil
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
history perfect achievement
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
religious integrity philosophical
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.
strong men weak-man
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
spiritual men motive
Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.
race law class
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.
government literature
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
people elements firsts
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
self likes vote
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.
fighting rights civilization
I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.
distance reality men
It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.
exercise men influence-and-power
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.