Society and the World

Liberty’s in every blow!

Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,

Man’s inhumanity to man

Man’s inhumanity to man

A man’s a man for a’ that.

A man’s a man for a’ that.

Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire,

The rank is but the guinea’s stamp,

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The people are the masters.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Of this stamp is the cant of Not men, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

We begin our public affections in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Society is indeed a contract … it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.