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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.

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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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