Benjamin Robbins Curtis Quotes
- The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon became sensible of…
- There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general…
- He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare…
- No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and,…
- Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers.…
- Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who…
- No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and…