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Old 11-06-2015, 10:24 AM   #2746
WT Sharpe
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
— Lord Acton (1834–1902), English historian. The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877).

And from a letter he wrote to Abbot Francis Aidan Gasquet in 1861 comes this gem:
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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