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
How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.
—Junius
Topics: Generosity
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
He that can only boast of a distinguished lineage, boasts of that which does not belong to himself; but he that lives worthily of it is always held in the highest honor.
—Junius
Topics: Ancestry
The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision.
—Junius
Topics: Opposition
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
All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.
—Junius
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
Even legal punishments lose all appearance of justice, when too strictly inflicted on men compelled by the last extremity of distress to incur them.
—Junius
Topics: Punishment
Some men are bigoted in politics, who are infidels in religion.—Ridiculous credulity!
—Junius
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
—Junius
Topics: Decisions, Evils
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
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
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
—Junius
Topics: Generosity
When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.
—Junius
Topics: Persuasion
Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
—Junius
Topics: Judgment, Judging
It behooves the minor critic, who hunts for blemishes, to be a little distrustful of his own sagacity.
—Junius
Topics: Critics, Criticism
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
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
—Junius
Topics: Persuasion
To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting, but it is fighting with shadows.
—Junius
Topics: Vice
Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted.
—Junius
Topics: Guilt
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, Sympathy, Politicians
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
If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.
—Junius
Topics: Vice
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine.—Realty to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.
—Junius
Topics: Understanding
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
Oppression is more easily borne than insult.
—Junius
Topics: Insults, Oppression
After long experience of the world, I affirm, before God, that I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy.
—Junius
We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
—Junius
Topics: Ancestors, Ancestry
A thorough and mature insensibility is rarely to be acquired but by a steady perseverance in infamy.
—Junius
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