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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolera...  
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the...  
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.  
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of ...  
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented ...  
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it ...  
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.  
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident ...   Politics
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.  
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a c...   Poetry
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, h...  
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of car...  
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an ind...  
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language s...  
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make ...  
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew h...  
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.  
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, ...  
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the ...  
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is procla...  
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.