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Where could be found finer sentiments of liberty, than in the works of Demosthenes and Cicero? Where should we meet with bolder assertions of the rights of mankind, and the dignity of human nature, than in the historians Tacitus and Thucydides?

— Charles James Fox

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Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

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