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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.