Junius Quotes

• Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

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  Compassion, Law, Cruelty

  Junius (1807). “Junius: Stat nominis umbra”, p.141

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• The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

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  Integrity, Men, Man Of Integrity

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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.

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  Men, Differences, Perfection

  Junius, Sir Philip Francis (1813). “Junius. Stat nominis umbra”, p.310

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• I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

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  Wisdom, Heart, Understanding

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• There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

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  Political, Politics, Holy

  'Public Advertiser' 19 December 1769, Letter 35

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• Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

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  Comeback, Insult, Oppression

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• The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

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  Life, Evil

  Junius (1829). “The posthumous works of Junius: To which is prefixed, an inquiry respecting the author: also, a Sketch of the life of John Horne Tooke”, p.337

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• The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

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  Essence, Election, Constitution

  'Public Advertiser' 24 April 1769, Letter 11

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• Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

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  Integrity, Cold, Left

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• How much easier is it to be generous than just.

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  Generosity, Easier, Generous

  Junius (1806). “The Letters of Junius Complete: Interspersed with the Letters and Articles to which He Replied, and with Notes, Biographical and Explanatory; Also a Prefatory Enquiry Respecting the Real Author”, p.191

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• Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

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  Honesty, Men, Views

  Junius (1829). “The posthumous works of Junius: To which is prefixed, an inquiry respecting the author: also, a Sketch of the life of John Horne Tooke”, p.397

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• It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

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  Coward, Fawns, Dare

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• The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

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  Justice, Done, Sometimes

  'Public Advertiser' 14 November 1770, Letter 41

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• It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.

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  Life, Want, Argument

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• The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

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  Religious, Rights, Political

  'The Letters of Junius' (1772 ed.) 'Dedication to the English Nation'

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