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The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.
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102
To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.
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The absolute power of this distant old master had touched my young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left me something to brood over after the play and in moments of repose.
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The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work.
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The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.
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To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one
107
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls.
108
There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.
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It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
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Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
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The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
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Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.
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The law, whether human or divine, is no respecter of persons; but the law is a respecter of reality.
Gerald Fordverified·Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon·September 8, 1974
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Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.
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My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will.
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I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures
Harry S. Trumanverified·Address Before a Joint Session of Congress (the Truman Doctrine)·March 12, 1947
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The animosities of elections should have no place in our Government, for government must concern itself alone with the common weal.
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
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The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press
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The press and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.
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It is an evil omen of the times that men have undertaken to calculate the mere material value of the Union.