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John Galt Quotes

1779–1839 Scotland

John Galt (May 2, 1779 – April 11, 1839) was a Scottish writer, businessman and colonial administrator. He is now mostly remembered for his The Provost, The Member, and other satirical novels of political life.

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In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.

From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes, a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.

The sword is the key of heaven and hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of Allah, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting or prayer: whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven, and at the day of judgment his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Galt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.