In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to … - Ray Stannard Baker

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Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

Ray Stannard Baker

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.

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