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The march of the human mind is slow. - Speech on the Conciliation of America [Mind] When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. - Speech on the Conciliation of America [Business] A wise and salutary neglect. - Speech on the Conciliation of America (vol. II, p. 117) [Neglect] My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. - Speech on the Conciliation of America (vol. II, p. 118) [Liberty] I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. - The Sublime and Beautiful (pt. I, sec. 14) [Delight] And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. - Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (vol. V, p. 156) [Government] Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. - Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent [Politics] When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent [Government : Unity] Illustrious Predecessor. - Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents [Example] In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered. - Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (vol. I, p. 516) [Discontent] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. - To Thomas Mercer [Public] A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends? - Vindication of Natural Society [Law] "War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince"; and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." - Vindication of Natural Society (vol. I, p. 15) [War] Displaying page 12 of 12 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12]
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