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"Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament."
"Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one."
"The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission."
"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."
"You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power."
"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
"He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors."
"Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover."
"Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary."
"God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked."
"Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart."
"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us."
"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."
"A coward's courage is in his tongue."
"My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others."
"We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation."