Junius Quotes

#1. How much easier is it to be generous than just. - Author: Junius

#2. The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. - Author: Junius

#3. Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold. - Author: Junius

#4. Oppression is more easily endured than insult. - Author: Junius

#5. It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. - Author: Junius

#6. Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them. - Author: Junius

#7. There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. - Author: Junius

#8. All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom. - Author: Junius

#9. The right of election is the very essence of the constitution. - Author: Junius

#10. The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. - Author: Junius

#11. When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. - Author: Junius

#12. The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. - Author: Junius

#13. It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience. - Author: Junius

#14. Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion. - Author: Junius

#15. Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. - Author: Junius

#16. It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. - Author: Junius

#17. It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. - Author: Junius

#18. Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest. - Author: Junius

#19. The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils. - Author: Junius

#20. One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. - Author: Junius