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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
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February 12, 1851; cf. the remark of John Wilkes about Samuel Johnson, "Liberty is as ridiculous in his mouth as Religion in mine" (20 March 1778), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1791
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