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Attempting with vigour to restore religion and virtue when I mount the throne, this great country will probably regain her ancient state of lustre.

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If vice and faction can be got the better of, this nation will again appear in her ancient lustre.

The pride, the glory of Britain, and the direct end of its constitution, is political liberty.

By God, Harrison, I will see you righted!

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Britain.

I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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