Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Junius

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the Public Advertiser, from 21 January 1769 to 21 January 1772. The signature had been already used, apparently by him, in a letter of 21 November 1768. These and numerous other personal letters were not included in his Letters of Junius collection, published in 1772.

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How much easier is it to be generous than just.

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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

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Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

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When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

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The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

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The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

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The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

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Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

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The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

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Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

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It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

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One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

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Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

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Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

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As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended forever. But neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.

Junius

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

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It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.

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I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

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Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

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Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Junius

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