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"Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions."
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"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

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"From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder."

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"The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence."

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"The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government."
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