“Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it? Forbid it, Almighty God!”
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“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
“We do not want to fritter away our short lives in chains, even if they are golden chains of prosperity and power.”
“It has been my observation that going into government, especially in a high-visibility job, lowers a person’s IQ by at least 50 points.”
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Frederick Douglass
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?”