"Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist……" — Ambrose Bierce

More Cannot Subsist Quotes

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• [I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney
• Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that… — John Winthrop
• Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality… — Unknown Author
• Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance. — Umar
• Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions,… — Joseph Addison
• But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. — Ezra Stiles
• It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in… — Samuel Adams
• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. — Samuel Johnson
• If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist… — Michel de Montaigne
• A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. — Daniel Webster
• Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or… — Francois La Rochefoucauld
• If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney

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