Junius Quotes

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.

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

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

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

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

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

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

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

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

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

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

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.