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Immortal sentences

The history of our country, like all history, illustrates the might of Mind, and shows human power to be propor- tionate to its embodiment of right thinking. A few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipo- tence of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic fetters and abolish the whipping-post and slave market; but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the breath of freedom come from the cannon's mouth. Love is the liberator.