"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."

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“Revolutions never go backward.”

“Aristocracy is always cruel.”

“aces love to be judged in two ways—by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.”

“The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth — to tear a question open and riddle it with light.”

“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”

“The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.”

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"The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics."

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"It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise."

— Benjamin Disraeli

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"We who seek justice will have to do justice to others."

— Mahatma Gandhi

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"In our university you know there is no Professorship of Divinity. A handle has been made of this, to disseminate an idea that this is an institution, not merely of no religion, but against all religio…"

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