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- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
- It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
- To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
- Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical…
- 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…
- 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…
- In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
- Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
- All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
- It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt…
- No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
- There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall,…
- What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
- There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
- Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
- The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
- Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
- When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to…
- This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
- By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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