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• There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development…
• Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and…
• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
• If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
• There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond…
• There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

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