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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

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There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or …

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Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the…

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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritanc…

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