A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue. -John Randolph

 

A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue.


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Life is not so important as the duties of life.

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269

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.

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238
A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue. -John Randolph
238

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

John Randolph
237

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

John Randolph
226
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
199

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

John Randolph
180