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Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
All government is founded on compromise and banter.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.