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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.
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— 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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