Quote

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Samuel Johnson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
Biographer
Bookseller
Essayist
Lexicographer
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Poet
Politician
Teacher
Translator
Writer
Lichfield
Staffordshire
Dr Johnson
Dr. Johnson
Great Moralist
Law
Suppress
Freedom
Abused
Order
John
Power
Bear
Government
Bears
Long
Mankind
Always
Name
Names
Lindsay

More quotes by Samuel Johnson

Image
The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
Samuel Johnson
Image
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
Image
It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
Samuel Johnson
Image
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
Samuel Johnson
Image
It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
Samuel Johnson
Image
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.
Samuel Johnson
Image
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Samuel Johnson
Image
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
Samuel Johnson
Image
We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
Samuel Johnson