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The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
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In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect.
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The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.
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Liberty and law have marched hand in hand.
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Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.
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If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.