"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."
-Wendell Phillips
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"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.“
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"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."
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"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
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"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
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