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TPJ (MA)'s avatar

"There are but two parties now, Traitors & Patriots and I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party."

-- Ulysses Grant, 1861

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Susan Lorraine Knox's avatar

Wow. It pays to read history!

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“We must settle this question now – whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln, 1861

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L duffy's avatar

Wow, thanks TPJ.

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TPJ (MA)'s avatar

Thanks also to Grant's biographers, all of whom quote this letter.

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