Quote#Freedom
What friend of human liberty, civilization, and refinement, can cast…
Quote byJohn L. O'Sullivan · 1813–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Great Nation of Futurity" (1839).
English (original)
What friend of human liberty, civilization, and refinement, can cast his view over the past history of the monarchies and aristocracies of antiquity, and not deplore that they ever existed? What philanthropist can contemplate the oppressions, the cruelties, and injustice inflicted by them on the masses of mankind, and not turn with moral horror from the retrospect?
— John L. O'Sullivan
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