He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent...
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent...
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
All government indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and...
Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.
When bad men combine the good must associate else they will fall one by one...
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to...
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
What ever disunites man from God also disunites man from man.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and...
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its...
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of...
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations...
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to...
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is...
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters economists and...
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