Mischiefs Quotes

18 quotes by 14 authors

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing. — Thomas Malthus
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there… — James Madison
It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. — James Madison
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose… — Alexander Hamilton
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. — Edmund Burke
Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The common and continual… — George Washington
A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting… — George Washington
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious… — Benjamin Franklin
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in… — Benjamin Franklin
To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims… — Alexander Hamilton
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed. — Ben Jonson
And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs. — William Shakespeare
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether… — John Locke
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they… — Tecumseh
Ignore your opponents mischiefs, they will become fools themselves... — Melchor Lim
The counterfeit of the spirit is stationed without the soul, watching over it and dogging it, and the rulers bind it to the soul with… — Ritu Ghatourey

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