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We teach them to take their pa...

We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is pa

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The soul and substance of what...

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word whic...

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive 'owners' who each in turn, as 'patriots' with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of 'robbers' who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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Behind every successful man, t...

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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Those who do not read have no ...

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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Love is madness, if thwarted i...

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

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The political and commercial m...

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

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An honest man in politics shin...

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

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The new political gospel: publ...

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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...one of the first achievemen...

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the 'asylum'.

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When politics enter into munic...

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible...

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To lodge all power in one part...

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

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All large political doctrines ...

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

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I was an arden Hayes man, but ...

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

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Where every man in a state has...

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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We are always too busy for our...

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

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Religion consists in a set of ...

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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In God We Trust. I don't belie...

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

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There was no place in the land...

There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

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So much blood has been shed by...

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: 'Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.' Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

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