Virtue has need of limits.
Virtue has need of limits.
What the orators lack in depth, they give you in length.
Society is the union of men but not men themselves the citizen may perish, but man remains.
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed A very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
The English are busy folk they have no time in which to be polite.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily Accomplished but we wish to be happier than other people, And this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
The life of states is like that of men. The latter have the right of killing in self-defense the former to make wars for their own preservation.
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
Solemnity is the shield of idiots.
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
A good writer does not write as people write, But as he writes.
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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