Reform is born of need, not pity.

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It was part of your religion to hate the British.

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The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

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No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

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But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

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Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

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But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

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The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

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War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

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You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

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