A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
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Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it.
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
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