"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."
"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
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Source: Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III. Book by Baron Henry Brougham, 1845.
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