Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.
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It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may oft
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it
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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it for the instability instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.
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By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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