Society and the World

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.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

The people are the masters.

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.

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.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

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.

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.

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.

Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

This barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings.