While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to concealthe ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we havenationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Horace Greeley
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  1. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
  2. I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
  3. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
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  5. Common sense is very uncommon.
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