Statesman Quotes

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.
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
To innovate is not to reform.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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