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  1. Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.
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  3. Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
  4. By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
  5. Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
  6. It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
  7. With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.
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  9. It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
  10. All government is an ugly necessity.
  11. It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged.
  12. For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
  13. He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
  14. If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
  15. Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.
  16. When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
  17. America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
  18. Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.
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  20. How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.