Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]”
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“Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!”
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“By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.”
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“I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.”
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“The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.”
-- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
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