Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Her superfluous attention to such accounts of the foreign politics as are transmitted to us by the daily prints, and her willingness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
