More from Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke St John

  1. The landed men are the true owners of our political vessel, the moneyed men are no more than passengers in it
  2. Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
  3. It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature a…
  4. The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
  5. They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
  6. The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and…
  7. Nations, like men, have their infancy.
  8. I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

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