Statesman Quotes

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Hatred is settled anger.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
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