Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in prop...ortion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our er...rors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child- nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybody... in matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume ...the presumption of altering them with invention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous s...peech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive th...e contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman ef...fort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the pe...rformance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old age is not a disease--it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and ...illnesses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »