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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Patience will achieve more than force.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Manners are of more importance than laws… Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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