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"Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part."
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"Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably. To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably."

"We should be able to refuse enchanting proposals and opportunities, if they contradict God's principles."

"If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone."

"When you begin to run after miracles you reduce yourself."

"It is not just becoming a Christian; it is also being a Christian all the time, 24 hours a day."

"Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands."

"To be honorable, you have to make sacrifices for others."
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"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women."

"A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom."

"Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated."

"The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives."

"Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom."

"The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter."

"The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession."

"It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school."

"If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure."

"It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people."
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