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Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures.
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Tyrannous exaction brings on servile concealment; and that again calls forth tyrannous coercion.
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The economy of injustice is to furnish resources for the fund of corruption.
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An armed disciplined body is, in its essence, dangerous to liberty; undisciplined, it is ruinous to society.
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The love of protecting too often degenerates into downright tyranny.
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The breakfast was eaten in silence, the women humbled with a sense of their helplessness, and the men gratified with a sense of their power.
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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
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A grave responsibility confronts this Court whenever in course of litigation it must reconcile the conflicting claims of liberty and authority.
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It is better for those who have almost unlimited power of government in their hands to err on the side of freedom.
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
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The student’s goal is Poise! Poise is Power.
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Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.
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Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
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Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy.
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Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.
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Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good.
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The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.
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Let it be impressed upon all hearts that, beautiful as our fabric is, no earthly power or wisdom could ever reunite its broken fragments.
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Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.
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To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one
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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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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.