Every step forward is followed by reaction, but the ground lost is recovered, and the next step taken marks always a steady advance.

Over and over again it has seemed that all the liberties won in the past were lost, but looking back we can see that there has been no lasting defeat of liberty.

Only for a time have the forces of oppression triumphed; it is soon found impossible in England to rest under tyranny, or to govern without the consent of the governed.

And every fresh campaign for the restriction of kingly power brings us nearer the day of democratic government.
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