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> # The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

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## More from Frederick Douglass

1. > No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

[Permalink to quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/14/ "Permalink to quote 14")
2. > Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy t…

[Permalink to quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/16/ "Permalink to quote 16")
3. > In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

[Permalink to quote \#13](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/13/ "Permalink to quote 13")

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