Lord of
Lord of
men suffering trying
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.
god voice grace
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
latin fate men
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State -- ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios -- burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man ... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.
writing history advice
Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.
giving history merit
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
men evil sacred
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
democracies-have majority-rule evil
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
pain men giving
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
absolutism stakes lost
I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo,
christian style religion
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
morning anxiety paper
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
smile eye soul
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
ignorance simple two
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
teaching government political
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.