A generous nation is grateful even for the preservation of its rights, and willingly extends the respect due to the office of a good prince into an affection for his person.
—Junius
Topics: Popularity
Be not affronted at a jest; if one throw ever so much salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm unless thou art raw and ulcerous.
—Junius
Topics: Jokes, Humor
Liberal minds are open to conviction. Liberal doctrines are capable of improvement. There are proselytes from atheism; but none from superstition.
—Junius
Topics: Superstition
I have learned by much observation, that nothing will satisfy a patriot but a place.
—Junius
Topics: Patriotism
A thorough and mature insensibility is rarely to be acquired but by a steady perseverance in infamy.
—Junius
Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
—Junius
Topics: Judgment, Judging
The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision.
—Junius
Topics: Opposition
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
—Junius
Topics: Integrity
How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.
—Junius
Topics: Generosity
All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.
—Junius
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
—Junius
Topics: Decisions, Evils
The vices operate like age; bringing on disease before its time, and in the prime of youth they leave the character broken and exhausted.
—Junius
Topics: Vice
Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
—Junius
Topics: Independence
Gratuitous violence in argument betrays a conscious weakness of the cause, and is usually a signal of despair.
—Junius
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.
—Junius
Topics: Media
It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.
—Junius
Topics: Politics, Politicians, Sympathy
Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.
—Junius
Topics: Guilt
As to lawyers, their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defense of right and wrong.
—Junius
Topics: Lawyers
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
—Junius
Topics: Compassion
One precedent creates another.—They soon accumulate, and constitute law.—What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.—Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures; and where they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied by analogy.
—Junius
Topics: Facts
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
—Junius
Topics: Cowardice, Coward
When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.
—Junius
Topics: Persuasion
Some men are bigoted in politics, who are infidels in religion.—Ridiculous credulity!
—Junius
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
—Junius
Topics: Generosity
If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.
—Junius
Topics: Vice
It is more than possible, that those who have neither character nor honor, may be wounded in a very tender part, their interest.
—Junius
The violation of party faith, is, of itself, too common to excite surprise or indignation.—Political friendships are so well understood that we can hardly pity the simplicity they deceive.
—Junius
Topics: Politics
Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nugatory.—Surmise and general abuse, is however elegant language, ought not to pass for truth.
—Junius
As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended forever.—But neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.
—Junius
Topics: Opinion
Oppression is more easily borne than insult.
—Junius
Topics: Insults, Oppression
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