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What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

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John Bright

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

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England is the Mother of Parliaments

England, Mother, Parliament, Parliaments

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

Art, Book, Give, Giving, Prefer, Room

There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia. We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.

Common, Europe, Nation, Nations, Russia, Two Nations

This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe the [United] States are working , and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.

Country, Fighting, Grow, States, Winning

The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America. . . [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries. . . [in producing] a long habit of submission. . . [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.

Acted, America, Class, Corrupting, Long, Slavery
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