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" Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. "

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" 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. "

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" I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. "

" Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. "

" Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. "

" The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. "

" A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. "

" The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "

" 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. "

" He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. "

" Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. "

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

" Laws, like houses, lean on one another. "

" Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. "

" You can never plan the future by the past. "

" Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. "

" 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. "

" By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. "

" If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. "

" It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. "

" Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. "

" The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. "

" The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. "

" Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. "

" When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. "