"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
-Thomas B. Macaulay
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"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.“
-Thomas B. Macaulay
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"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."
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"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
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"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
-Thomas B. Macaulay
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"Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising."
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"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
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