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Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on the contrary, whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land, involving men's minds in the extremities of hopes and fears, there can be no process of thought, no education going on, by which alone can a people be prepared for the enjoyment of rational liberty.

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Thomas de Quincey

Thomas de Quincey

Thomas de Quincey (August 15, 1785 - December 8, 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822).

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