"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities."

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Source : "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

George Mason

#Country Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”
“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.”
“Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.”
“I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.”
“There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.”
“To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.”

Source : Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.137, Random House
“The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.”

Source : Call Out Boy‏ @jephjacques, twitter.com. September 4, 2009.
“There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.”

Source : "What Comes Naturally". www.newyorker.com. November 25, 2002.

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