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- "A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively ..."
- "A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust ..."
- "A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. "
- "And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his ..."
- "Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish ..."
- "He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. "
- "He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. "
- "Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that ..."
- "Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. "
- "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain ..."
- "She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. "
- "The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. "
- "The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare ..."
- "The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, ..."
- "The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good ..."
- "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew ..."
- "The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. "
- "The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because ..."
- "There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But ..."
- "Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, ..."
- "Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. "
