americans about russia
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Abraham Lincoln, letter to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855:
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].
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Abraham Lincoln, letter to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855:
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].
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Re: where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy
Date: 2011-12-04 06:33 pm (UTC)как-то слова "золотая середина" не приживаются в нашем краю чистых красок и неамутнённых идеологий.