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This excessive love for "the balance of power" is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

— John Bright

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The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

It is not Bradlaugh's atheism which they hate, but his unconscious Christianity.

I have never uttered a word in favour of universal suffrage either in this House or elsewhere.

I am for peace, retrenchment, and for reform — thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.

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And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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