Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Politics

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  1. With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

  2. The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

  3. The true key to the declension of the Roman empire - which is not to be found in all Gibbon's immense work - may be stated in two words: - the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

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