Poems List

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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Custom reconciles us to everything.

On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) pt. 4, sect. 18

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2

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Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.

On Conciliation with America (1775)

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

On Conciliation with America (1775)

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It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.

On Conciliation with America (1775)

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Every human benefit, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise.

On Conciliation with America (1775)

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact; and great trade will always be attended with considerable abuses.

On American Taxation (1775)

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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

On American Taxation (1775)

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