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What did the two words "Liberty and Empire" mean in the Roman mouth? They meant simply this: liberty for ourselves, empire over the rest of mankind.

— 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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