I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
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When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future t...
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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