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Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.
It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.
As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended forever. But neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.
