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| [W]e must deny the fact, that slaves are considered merely as property, and in no respect whatever as persons. The true state of the case is, that they partake of both these qualities: being considered by our laws, in some respects, as persons, and in other respects as property. In being compelled to labor, not for himself, but for a master; in being vendible by one master to another master; and in being subject at all times to be restrained in his liberty and chastised in his body, by the capricious will of another, the slave may appear to be degraded from the human rank, and classed with those irrational animals which fall under the legal denomination of property. In being protected, on the other hand, in his life and in his limbs, against the violence of all others, even the master of his labor and his liberty; and in being punishable himself for all violence committed against others, the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society, not as a part of the irrational creation; as a moral person, not as a mere article of property. |
| ~ (James Madison) Federalist, no. 54 ~ |
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| Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 93, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). ~ |
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| Hugo beholds the world as if in the flashes of lightning and the pauses of the tempest. |
| ~ -On Hugo, Andrew Lang ~ |
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| Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. ~ |
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| It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed. |
| ~ Gore Vidal (b. 1925), U.S. novelist, critic. “Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars,” Rocking the Boat (1963). ~ |
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| Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. columnist, lecturer. Syndicated newspaper column. “My Day,” (April 16, 1945). ~ |
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| Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Borderers. Act iv. Sc. 2. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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