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" A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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" The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. "

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" Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. "

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" The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. "

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" There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. "

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" He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. "

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" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "

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" We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. "

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" I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. "

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" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "

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" American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. "

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