"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
-Lord Acton
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"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.“
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