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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselve...s.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The intellect,--that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are ...transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his ...own comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the c...hurch-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it recor...ds between the material and the moral nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a ...college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »