Wherever the Government does ...

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

William Hazlitt

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Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves.

William Hazlitt

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

William Hazlitt

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

William Hazlitt

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt