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Quotes from England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession — G. M. Trevelyan

1876–1962 England

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Kindly old England has always in the long run revolted against "fascist" experiments at the permanent suppression of "the other side".

England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession (1934)

Security and liberty were obtained under the Hanoverian Constitution, because, under Walpole, the Whigs became, what they had not always been, the "moderate men."

England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession (1934)

The specific work of the early Eighteenth Century in England, on the line down which it was launched by the events of Anne's reign, was the establishment of the rule of law, and that law a law of liberty. On that solid foundation the reforms of succeeding epochs have been based.

England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession (1934)

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