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- Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to…
- It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that…
- Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to…
- The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all…
- The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the…
- As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:…
- We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of,…
- The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved…
- The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the…
- It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas…
- I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will…
- Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during…
- In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government…
- There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something…
- Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them…
- Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it.
- There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are…
- The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
- It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
- In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never…
- It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are…
- I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and…
- Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man…
- Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were…
- Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster