PHILIP FRANCIS

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

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

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

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

We lament the mistakes of a good man, and do not begin to detest him until he affects to renounce his principles.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Loyalty, in the heart and understanding of an Englishman, is a rational attachment to the guardian of the laws.

The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.

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

The injustice to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles.

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.

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

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