• There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.

  Benjamin Robbins Curtis
  American attorney
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. indifference
2. accompanied
3. ignorance
4. interests
5. destroyed
6. motives

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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed. by : Benjamin Robbins Curtis

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