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"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Ability, Honesty, Truth 1.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"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." Men 3.85 average rating Rate this Quote
"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham." America, Justice, Time 4.28 average rating Rate this Quote
"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." Darkness, Desires, Freedom 4.71 average rating Rate this Quote
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose." Miscellaneous 4.33 average rating Rate this Quote
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me." Insults, Men 4.60 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect." Adversity, Art, Death 4.00 average rating Rate this Quote


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