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'Tis a great sin for man or woman
To steal a goose from off a common;
But Who shall plead that man's excuse
Who steals the common from the goose!

— Richard Cobden

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If the United States go wrong what hope have we of the civilized world in our turn?

You have no security for a man who has no religious principle.

I say that if England takes due advantage of her insular position, and confines herself to her own affairs, and does not run into needless and rash disputes with other countries, there never was a time when she stood so free from danger of war as at the present moment.

I know that there are many heads which cannot comprehend and master a proposition in political economy. I believe that study is the highest exercise of the human mind.

Our only chance as a nation is in knowing in time what is sure to come from the United States.

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