1780 · Skopia

Showing 8 quotes from 1780

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Letter to John Adams, 1780 · 1780

★ 5.3

The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders most of those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.

Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade · 1780

★ 5.1

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin

The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779 · 1780

★ 3.9

Speech · Political speech

Individuals pass like shadows; but the commonwealth is fixed and stable.

1780

★ 3.7

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy.

1780

★ 3.7

I hate Congress—I hate the army—I hate the world—I hate myself. The whole is a mass of fools and knaves.

Alexander Hamilton

1780

★ 2.8

Speech · Political speech

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Speech at the Bristol Guildhall, September 6, 1780 · 1780

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

The people are the masters.

Speech in House of Commons, February 11, 1780 · 1780

★ 1.2