Quote #100

Circumstances...give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

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  1. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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  3. There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first in…
  4. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
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  7. Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
  8. Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.

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