All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. |
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice |
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities |
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. |
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. |
Ambition can creep as well as soar. |
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist |
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. |
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them |
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover. |
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. |
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. |
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. |
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. |
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring withtheir importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle. . . chewthe cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make thenoise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they aremany in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome _insects_ ofthe hour. |