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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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The worst prison would be a closed heart.

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

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