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Lord Acton

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Every religious party, however exclusive or servile its theory may be, if it is in contradiction with a system generally accepted and protected by law, must necessarily, at its first appearance, assume the protection of the idea that the conscience is free. Before a new authority can be set up in the place of one that exists, there is an interval when the right of dissent must be proclaimed.

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