“You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.”

On Compromise http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11557/11557-h/11557-h.htm (1874).

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John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn 37
British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor 1838–1923

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