George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes

• Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Horse, Men, Justice

  c.1687 Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Punishment'.

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• To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Moats, Looks, Answers

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• The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Men, Numbers, Would Be

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• If politicians would think more they would act less.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Thinking, Ideas, Politician

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• Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Beauty, Truth, Perfect

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