Junius Quotes

I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.

If individuals have no virtues their vices may be of use to us.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct not by their professions.

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.