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Our religions provide critical guidance for the way we live our lives, and for the way in which we treat each other.

— Elizabeth II

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It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.

But nothing that can be said can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments. Grief is the price we pay for love.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

Our peace and prosperity can never be taken for granted and must constantly be tended, so that never again do we have cause to build monuments to our fallen youth.

On behalf of the British people I salute the skill and courage which have brought man to the moon. May this endeavour increase the knowledge and well-being of mankind.

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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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