Speech · Courtroom speechFacts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.John Adams1770★ 5.3
Courtroom speech · SpeechThe law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men... On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace.John Adams1770★ 3.6
Pamphlet · Political literatureWe must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.Edmund Burke1770★ 3.5
Pamphlet · Political literatureTo complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.Edmund Burke1770★ 3.5
PoemIll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.Oliver Goldsmith1770★ 3.5
Speech · Political speechUnlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.William Pitt, Earl of Chatham1770★ 1.9
Philosophical literatureIf ignorance of nature gave birth to the Gods, knowledge of nature is destined to destroy them.Baron d'Holbach1770★ 1.9
Pamphlet · Political literatureI am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.Edmund Burke1770★ 1.9
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