Statesman Quotes

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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