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• Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
• Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the…
• Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
• The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the…
• A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
• The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
• Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
• Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
• For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
• A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
• In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
• A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

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