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The sum total of progress associated with the Industrial Revolution has not been wholly for the good of man.

— G. M. Trevelyan

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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

English Social History (1942)

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)

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

History of England (1960)

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)

Because James II had attempted to destroy the institutions of the country, it long remained impossible for anyone else to attempt their reform.

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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