Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.
—Joseph Story
Topics: Flattery
It is only the nature of their education that puts a woman at such disadvantage, and keeps up the notion that they are our inferiors in ability.—The best sources of knowledge are shut off from them, and the surprise is that they manage to keep so abreast of us as they do.
—Joseph Story
Topics: Woman
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.
—Joseph Story
Topics: Wisdom
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