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An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.

Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Where laws end, tyranny begins.