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I submit that it is an Agreement that this country may not only be contented with, but proud of.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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The intelligence is not free in the presence of a mortal fear lest its conclusions should trouble soft tranquillity of spirit.

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Define it as we may, faith in Progress has been the mainspring of Liberalism in all its schools and branches.

The political spirit is the great force in throwing love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

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Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.

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