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1139 Statesman Quotes

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Anxious Error General Loudest
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Exact Greatness All Nature
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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.

Always Crushed Dangerous Enemies
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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.

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

Cannot Constitution Eternal Forge
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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

Associate Bad Bad Men Combine
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Act Boundary Feelings Imagination
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Between In My Opinion Justice Liberty
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Achieve Force More Our
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Fatal Indifference Nothing Religion
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Eating Like Read Reflecting
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Bad Laws Sort Tyranny
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Delusion Give Liberties Never
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among Cannot Corrupt Exist
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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.

Actual Any Case Considerable
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art Creation Essentially Finished
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Adultery Forgives Gospel Never
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Aim Applause End Minds
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty Happiness Of Promise
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Change Conservation Means Some
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Good order is the foundation of all things.

All Things Foundation Good Order
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Despair Never But Work
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Good All None For
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Agreement Little Politics Pulpit
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Command Commands Free Indeed
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Acting Fear Mind Passion
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Founded Frugality Limits Principal
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Fame Great Great Souls Instinct
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Change Great Law Most
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Both Corrupts Flattery Giver
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Another Houses Laws Lean
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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.

Creator Equity Governs Humanity
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Liberty Limited Must Order
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Away Danger Expedience Liberty
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Country Love Lovely Make
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Conclude Derived Good Happy
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Drown Even Gnawing May
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Empire Go Great Ill
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Every Grows Slavery Soil
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Always Chance Condition Conscience
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Cause Considered Difference Friend
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Better Dreams Future History
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Arrangement Benevolent Friendship Greater
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Better Educated Man Newspapers
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Authority Bold Every Fearing
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Current Like Matters Principle
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Bad Bad Government General Government
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Among Certain Created Creator
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Always Handle Hold Smooth
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