"If the public are bound to yield obedience……" — Samuel Adams

More Approbation Quotes

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• Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume
• We ask advice but we mean approbation. — Charles Caleb Colton
• Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of… — Joseph Addison
• There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his… — Arthur Helps
• It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the… — Thomas Reid
• Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our… — Charles Darwin
• Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed… — Mahatma Gandhi
• The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity.… — Herbert Spencer
• Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or… — Thomas Jefferson
• Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as… — William Golding
• The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it… — Pope Benedict XVI

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