“I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 20
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“The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.”
“The Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed.”
“Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times.”
“Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”
“Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”
“What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.”
“We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.”
“Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”
“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed.”
“There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
“After all, it is my principle that the will of the Majority should always prevail.”
“The sun passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.”
“The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power.”
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