| Quotes |
Topic |
| England | The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England. |
| Evil | The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. |
| Example | Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. |
| Example | Illustrious Predecessor. |
| Fear | Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. |
| Fidelity | No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. |
| Future | You can never plan the future by the past. |
| Goodness | The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. |
| Government | All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter. |
| Government | And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. |
| Government | When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. |
| Government | Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. |
| Grave | I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets. |
| Judges | The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. |
| Judges | It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion. |
| Judges | Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. |
| Justice | Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. |
| Justice | It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. |
| Justice | Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. |
| Law | I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. |
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