The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. |
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity |
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity |
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity |
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. |
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. |
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires |
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires |
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. |
The little, meagre, shrivelled, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. |
The march of the human mind is slow |
The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success |
The men of England, the men, I mean, of light and leading in England. |
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted |
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. |