What every man and woman too has a right to, is to be well governed and under just laws, and they who propose a change ought to show that the present organisation does not accomplish those objects....
Morley emphasizes the importance of good governance and just laws as the fundamental rights of citizens.
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But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
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