Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the…

Clarence Darrow
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers. ✨ Clarence Darrow's funeral oration for John Peter Altgeld, March 14, 1902.
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