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" I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. "

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" Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. "

" People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. "

" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "

" It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. "

" 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. "

" There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. "

" Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. "

" Tyrants seldom want pretexts. "

" The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. "

" Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. "

" Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. "

" It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. "

" Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. "

" Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. "

" Ambition can creep as well as soar. "

" The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. "

" In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. "

" Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. "

" We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. "

" But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. "

" Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. "

" To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. "

" Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. "

" The march of the human mind is slow. "

" Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. "

" The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. "

" When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. "

" It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. "