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The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

— James Mackintosh Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791)

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The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy (1830)

The theory (propounded by Vedanta) [is] refined, abstruse, ingenious and beautiful.

It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are.

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh Vol. I (1835)

Having insured the moderation of a fanatical rabble, by giving out among them the savage war-whoop of atheism, he (Edmund Burke) already fancies himself in full march to Paris.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791)

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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