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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.
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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.
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.
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.
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.
There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
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.
Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.
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 system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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.
You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them
I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.