Junius Quotes
Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the London Public Advertiser from January 21, 1769 to January 21, 1772.
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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.
[Popularity]
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A thorough and mature insensibility is rarely to be acquired but by a steady perseverance in infamy.
[Insensibility]
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A very honest man, and a very good understanding, may be deceived by a knave.
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After long experience in the world, I affirm, before God, that I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy.
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All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.
[Despotism]
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An honest man, like the true religion, appeals to the understanding, or modestly confides in the internal evidence of his conscience. The imposter employes force instead of argument, imposes silence where he cannot convince, and propagates his character by the sword.
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An obstinate, ungovernable self-sufficiency plainly points out to us that state of imperfect maturity at which the graceful levity of youth is lost and the solidity of experience not yet acquired.
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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.
[Opinion]
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As to lawyers, their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defense of right and wrong.
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Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nugatory.-Surmise and general abuse, is however elegant language, ought not to pass for truth.
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Be not affronted at a jest; if one throw ever so much salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm unless thou art raw and ulcerous.
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Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws, is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
[Compassion]
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Even legal punishments lose all appearance of justice, when too strictly inflicted on men compelled by the last extremity of distress to incur them.
[Punishment]
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Gratuitous violence in argument betrays a conscious weakness of the cause, and is usually a signal of despair.
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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.
[Ancestry]
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How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.
[Generosity]
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I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived.
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I have learned by much observation, that nothing will satisfy a patriot but a place.
[Patriotism]
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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.
[Understanding]
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If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.
[Vice]
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