"Whatever is right can be achieved through the irresistible power of awakened and informed public opinion. Our object, therefore, is not to enquire whether a thing can be done, but whether it ought to be done, to so exert the forces of publicity that public opinion will compel it be done."
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"Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong."
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