Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Vol. i. p. 456.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Vol. i. p. 516.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Vol. i. p. 526.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.[408:2]

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Vol. i. p. 531.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 108.

There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.