I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat. -John Randolph

 

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat.


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Life is not so important as the duties of life.

John Randolph

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul.

John Randolph

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

John Randolph

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour.

John Randolph