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John Morley: “But for myself, I think I can truly put up all the change that has come into my politics into a sentence; I (M168) was…”

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But for myself, I think I can truly put up all the change that has come into my politics into a sentence; I (M168) was brought up to distrust and dislike liberty, I learned to believe in it.
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John Morley

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Morley summarizes his personal political transformation from skepticism to belief in liberty.

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