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— Lord Acton"The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom."
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...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.
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