Junius Quotes

#1. When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

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#2. One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

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#3. The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

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

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#5. It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

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#6. It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

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#7. Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

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#8. Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

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#9. 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.

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#10. The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

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#11. How much easier is it to be generous than just.

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#12. The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

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#13. The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

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#14. All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.

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#15. There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

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#16. Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

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#19. Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

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#20. The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

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