John Randolph Quotes
A United States Statesman and orator.
(1773 - 1833)
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All of us have two educations - one which we receive from others; another, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves.
[Education]
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As the duty is precisely correspondent to the power, it follows that the richer, the wiser, the more powerful a man is, the greater is the obligation upon him to employ his gifts in lessening the sum of human misery; and this employment constitutes happiness, which the weak and wicked vainly imagine to consist in wealth, finery, or sensual gratification.
[Duty]
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Asking one of the states to surrender part of her sovereignty is like asking a lady to surrender part of her chastity.
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Cabal is the necessary effects of freedom. Where men are left to act, we must calculate on their being governed by their interests and passions.
[Freedom]
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Change is not reform.
[Reform]
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Electioneering is upon no very pleasant footing anywhere; but with you, where the "base proletarian rout" are admitted to vote, it must be peculiarly irksome and repugnant to the feelings of a gentleman.
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Government, to be safe and to be free, must consist of representatives having a common interest and a common feeling with the represented... No government extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific can be fit to govern me or those whom I represent. There is death in the pot, compound it how you will.
[Government]
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He is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight
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I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
[Liberty]
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I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat the Lord's Prayer.
[Prayer]
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I envy neither the heart nor the head of that man from the North, who rises here in Congress to defend slavery from principle.
[Slavery]
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I have discovered the philosopher's stone, that turns everything into gold: it is, "Pay as you go."
[Debt]
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Life is not so important as the duties of life.
[Duty]
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Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour.
[Disappointment]
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None but the people can forge their own chains; and to flatter the people and delude them by promises never meant to be performed is the stale but successful practice of the demagogue.
[Tyranny]
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Private character, always dear, always to be respected, seems almost to be canonized by the grave. When men go hence, their evil deeds should follow them, and, for me might sleep oblivious in their tomb. But if the mouldering ashes of the dead are to be raked up, let it not be for the furtherance of injustice.
[Character]
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Reprove not, in their wrath, excited men; good counsel comes all out of season then; but when their fury is appeased and past, they will perceive their faults, and mend at last. When he is cool and calm, then utter it.
[Reproof]
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That potent engine, the dread of tyrants, and of villians, but the shield of freedom and of worth.
[Journalism]
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The only truly happy men I have ever known, were Christians.
[Christian]
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The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
[Liberty]
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