A democracy, that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God for shortness sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
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I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality I am conscious of eternal life.
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Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
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All men desire to be immortal.
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It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
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