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- Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being…
- 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…
- 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…
- The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from…
- All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they…
- General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
- The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
- I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of…
- Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have…
- When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
- The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with…
- If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they,…
- I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon…
- Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able…
- Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment…
- Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or…
- Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
- Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can…
- The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
- If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.
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