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Category: Walter Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but – live it.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.