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Effectual Quotes
Lines on what genuinely works in government and restraint
This collection gathers effectual quotes on what genuinely restrains excess, from personal labor to the structure of free government itself. For related lines, see our conscience quotes collection.
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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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