A Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Anarchy Been Government

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Henry Ward Beecher
American - Priest
June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of Government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths.

James Madison

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.

Dorothea Dix

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Christopher Marlowe

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

Kobe Bryant

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And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

William Shakespeare

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John Locke

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Edmund Burke

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

James Madison

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Ben Jonson

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

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The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

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