A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for... Is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.

John Stuart Mill

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Contest in America." Fraser's Magazine, Feb. 1862.

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The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression, even though that cost be blood.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. John Brown. George W. Jacobs and Company, 1909, ch. 13.

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It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

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Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.

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