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A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of god; for shortness' sake i will call it the idea of freedom.
-Theodore Parker
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Theodore Parker
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of god; for shortness' sake i will call it the idea of freedom.
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