John Philpot Curran Quotes

#1. To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

John Philpot Curran

#2. In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.

John Philpot Curran

#3. When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

John Philpot Curran

#4. His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

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#5. Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

John Philpot Curran

#6. The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

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#7. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

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#8. Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

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#9. But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

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#10. I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

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#11. It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.

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#12. My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

John Philpot Curran