Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
Those who attempt to level never equalize
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