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- Only
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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.
- Free
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
- Mistake
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Politics
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Imagination
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- Liberty
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
- Indifference
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
- He
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Journey
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
- Endured
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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.
- Creation
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Gospel
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
- Happiness
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
- Conservation
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
- Perennial
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
- Foundation
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
- Never
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
- None
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
- Money
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
- Gain
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Great
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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.
- Fear
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Essential Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- Creep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Flattery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
- Humanity
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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.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
- Love
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
- Good
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
- Gnawing
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
- Never
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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.
- Nov 07, 2020
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
- Grows
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
- Seldom
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
- Evil
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can never plan the future by the past.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Custom reconciles us to everything.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loudest
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
- Great
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