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It is in the nineteenth century that we propose to reënact, and on an ampler scale, the same execrable villany,--a time when liberty is the rallying cry of all Christendom.
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He warns against repeating the atrocities of the past in the context of the ongoing struggle for liberty.
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The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
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