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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it<br />

could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes<br />

faction than it would be to wish the annihilation <strong>of</strong> air, which is essential to animal life, because it<br />

imparts to fire its destructive agency.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Federalist’ (1787) no. 10<br />

<strong>The</strong> diversity in the faculties <strong>of</strong> men, from which the rights <strong>of</strong> property originate, is not less an<br />

insuperable obstacle to a uniformity <strong>of</strong> interests. <strong>The</strong> protection <strong>of</strong> these faculties is the first<br />

object <strong>of</strong> government. From the protection <strong>of</strong> different and unequal faculties <strong>of</strong> acquiring<br />

property, the possession <strong>of</strong> different degrees and kinds <strong>of</strong> property immediately results.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Federalist’ (1787) no. 10<br />

1.39 Maurice Maeterlinck 1862-1949<br />

Il n’y a pas de morts.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are no dead.<br />

‘L’Oiseau bleu’ (1909) act 4<br />

1.40 Archbishop Magee 1821-91<br />

It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober.<br />

Speech on the Intoxicating Liquor Bill in ‘Hansard’, House <strong>of</strong> Lords, 2 May 1872, col. 86<br />

1.41 Magna Carta 1215<br />

Quod Anglicana ecclesia libera sit.<br />

That the English Church shall be free.<br />

Clause 1<br />

Nullius liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur, aut dissaisiatur, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut<br />

aliquo modo destruator, nec super eum ibimus, nec super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium<br />

parium suorum vel per legem terrae.<br />

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed or exiled, or in any way<br />

destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgement<br />

<strong>of</strong> his peers or by the law <strong>of</strong> the land.<br />

Clause 39<br />

Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus aut differemus, rectum aut justitiam.<br />

To no man will we sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice.<br />

Clause 40<br />

1.42 Alfred T. Mahan 1840-1914<br />

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood<br />

between it and the dominion <strong>of</strong> the world.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Influence <strong>of</strong> Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812’ (1892) vol. 2, ch. 15

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