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The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich. ↗

— Stephen J. Field

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But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#down #expulsion #future #history #i

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#bring #citizen #down #greek #i

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. ↗

— George Farquhar

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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#another man #area #comes #experience #human

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas. ↗

— William Labov

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. ↗

— John Bunyan

#again #bestows #goods #his #more

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#always #avoided #confined #interests #laws

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#any #case #considerable #endured #ever

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#back #because #beginning #chance #curves