Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by John Philpot Curran

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish public servant John Philpot Curran.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

John Philpot Curran was an Irish orator, politician, wit, lawyer and judge, who held the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland. He was renowned for his representation in 1780 of Father Neale, a Catholic priest horsewhipped by the Anglo-Irish Lord, Viscount Doneraile, and in the 1790s for his defence of United Irishmen facing capital charges of sedition and treason. His courtroom speeches were widely admired. Lord Byron was to say of Curran, "I have heard that man speak more poetry than I have seen written". Karl Marx described him as the greatest "people's advocate" of the eighteenth century.

Irish - Public Servant | July 24, 1750 - October 14, 1817

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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

John Philpot Curran

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

John Philpot Curran

In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.

John Philpot Curran

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

John Philpot Curran

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.

John Philpot Curran

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

John Philpot Curran

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

John Philpot Curran

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

John Philpot Curran

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

John Philpot Curran

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

John Philpot Curran

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

John Philpot Curran

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

John Philpot Curran

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

John Philpot Curran

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

John Philpot Curran

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by John Philpot Curran

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