Top 5 James Harrington Quotes
#1. The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
James Harrington
#2. A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
James Harrington
#3. No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
James Harrington
#4. The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis Cupid's fire.
James Harrington
#5. Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
James Harrington
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