Quote #59

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

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  1. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
  2. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... the only house in a slave State in which…
  3. Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we…
  4. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from i…
  5. He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounc…
  6. I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.
  7. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little v…
  8. They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitu…

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