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Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

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If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

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The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.

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If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.

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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

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My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

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