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He proclaimed the doctrine of nationality, and paid decorous homage to the principle of appeal to the popular voice.
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John Morley
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This quote emphasizes the importance of nationality and popular sovereignty in political discourse.
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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.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
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