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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Lloyd Garrison. (1805–1879) (continued)
 
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      With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
          Life. Vol. i. Page 188.
6448
      Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
          Life. Vol. i. Page 268.
6449
      We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.
          Life. Vol. i. Page 402.
6450
      The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.
          Life. Vol. iii. Page 224.
6451
      Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
          Life. Vol. iii. Page 390.
6452
      The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
          Life. Vol. iii. Page 473.
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      You can not possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
          Life. Vol. iv. Page 224.
 
Isaac McLennan. (1806–1899)
 
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    New England’s dead. New England’s dead!
  On every hill they lie;
On every field of strife, made red
  By bloody victory.
          New England’s Dead.
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    The land is holy where they fought
  And holy where they fell;
For by their blood that land was bought,
  The land they loved so well.
          New England’s Dead.