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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro

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Castro, Fidel. Discurso Pronunciado por El Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, Primer Ministro De Gobierno Revolucionario [Speech on the Second Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution]. 2 Jan. 1961, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba.

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 1: General Introduction." Independent Journal, 27 Oct. 1787.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. I: Deliberation on a new constitution--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Anthony, Susan B. Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 5 June 1856.

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Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington D.C.: J. S. Redfield, 1871.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas, edited by Ed Folsom. University Of Iowa Press, 2009.

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Truth, Sojourner. Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. American Equal Rights Association meeting. 9 May 1867, New York, NY, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions." 27 Jan. 1838, Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 48: These Departments Should Not Be So Far Separated as to Have No Constitutional Control Over Each Other." New York Packet, 1 Feb. 1788.

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Madison, James. "No. 48: Some blending of powers is necessary.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, sect. 1.

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Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 1.

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, Apr. 1946, vol. 13, issue 76, pp. 252-265.

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 38.

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 70: The Executive Department Further Considered." New York Packet, 18 Mar. 1788.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 70: Energy in the executive. First ingredient: Unity.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Adams, John. Letter to Horatio Gates. 23 Mar. 1776.

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“From John Adams to Horatio Gates, 23 March 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-04-02-0023.

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Grant, Ulysses S. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1869, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "5 Oct. 1830." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1835.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

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Thatcher, Margaret. Speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet. Lord Mayor’s Banquet. 12 Nov. 1979, Guildhall, London, England, UK.

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Hamilton, Alexander and James Madison [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 20: The Same Subject Continued: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union." New York Packet, 11 Dec. 1787.

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Hamilton, Alexander and James Madison. "No. 20: Conclusion: such confederations wrong in theory, violent in practice.--Madison (and Hamilton). The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "History." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "History (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De re publica [On the Commonwealth]. c. 51 BC, bk. 6, ch. 13.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "The Republic." The Republic and The Laws, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 6, ch. 13.

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Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams. 12 May 1780.

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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0258.