"Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It……" — Jonathan Mayhew
"Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity."
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Jonathan Mayhew
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23 Quotes by Jonathan Mayhew
Jonathan Mayhew has 23 quotes on this site.
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Extremes are dangerous.
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To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play…
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But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
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People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it…
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I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people…
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Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness
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All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of…
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Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they…
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There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism
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It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law;…
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It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to…
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There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the…
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred…
— Charles Perrault
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
— Propertius
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We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the…
— Khalil Gibran
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May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle…
— George Eliot
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