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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?

Now military governments, established for an indefinite period, would have offered no security for the early suppression of discontent, would have divided the people into the vanquishers and the vanquished, and would have envenomed hatred rather than have restored affection.

The supply of time, though gloriously regular, is cruelly restricted.

The present alone is true and actual; it is the only time which possesses full reality, and our existence lies in it exclusively.

all the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own chamber

Nothing is so insupportable to man as to be completely at rest, without passion, without business, without diversion, without study.

The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.

War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty.

In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.

Whatsoever thwarts, or puts me out of my way, brings death into my mind.

Besides my daylight servitude, I served over again all night in my sleep, and would awake with terrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my accounts, and the like.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

but to have the spleen, and to dream upon't, is a punishment I would not wish my greatest enemy

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex

An armed disciplined body is, in its essence, dangerous to liberty; undisciplined, it is ruinous to society.

Oh, if our friends would but put off anatomising one till after one was safely dead, and call to mind that, previously, we have nerves to be agonised and morbid brains to be driven mad!

Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things

The movement of the floes was beyond all human control, and there was nothing to be gained by allowing one's mind to struggle with the problems of the future, though it was hard to avoid anxiety at times.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression.

When legislation touches freedom of thought and freedom of speech, such a tendency is a formidable enemy of the free spirit.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

The robbers of time are the past and the future.

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself