The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
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Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.Thaddeus Stevens
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