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but I am still of opinion that where there are 100,000,000 of men, and forty distinct nations, unequally strong, the continuance of the Federal Government can only be a fortunate accident.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
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In 1946, President Truman appointed, by executive order, a blue-ribbon committee to study the civil rights problem in all its aspects, and the committee’s report, “To Secure These Rights,” called not only for a permanent FEPC, abolition of the poll tax, and federal laws against lynchings but also for the establishment of a permanent Commission on C
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
To drop a man in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and tell him he is at liberty to walk ashore would not be a more bitter irony than to place a man where all the land is appropriated and to tell him that he is a free man, at liberty to work for himself and to enjoy his own earnings. George, SP
Leo Tolstoy • A Calendar of Wisdom: New Translation (Alma Classics)
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