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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Political Essays (1819)
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
Political Essays (1819)
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
Political Essays (1819)
We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.
Political Essays (1819)
I deny that liberty and slavery are convertible terms, that right and wrong, truth and falsehood, plenty and famine, the comforts or wretchedness of a people, are matters of perfect indifference.
Political Essays (1819)
I am no politician, and still less can I be said to be a party-man : I have a hatred of tyranny, and a contempt for its tools; and this feeling I have expressed as often and as strongly as I could.
Political Essays (1819)
The Tory is one who is governed by sense and habit alone. He considers not what is possible, but what is real; he gives might the preference over right. He cries long life to the conqueror, and is ever strong upon the stronger side — the side of corruption and prerogative.
Political Essays (1819)