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In moral forces, and in their growing effect upon European politics, I have a great faith: possibly on that very account, I am free to confess, sometimes a misleading one.

— William Ewart Gladstone

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National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

I believe the slave trade to be by far the foulest crime that taints the history of mankind in any Christian or pagan country.

Yes; these are people struggling to be free, and they are struggling rightly to be free.

My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.

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