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Language is the machine of the poet.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
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The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.
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Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
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I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.
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In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
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The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, Est il possible?-Is it possible?
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The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
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With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.
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In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
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Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack But those behind cried Forward! And those before cried Back!
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A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
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Reform, that we may preserve.
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