Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Mary Wollstonecraft · The French Revolution (1794), bk. V, ch. 4

Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.

Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Men

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft · The source reads: “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”

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I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.

Margaret Chase Smith · The source reads: “The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.” · Declaration of Conscience, U.S. Senate (June 1, 1950)

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Samuel Johnson

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Thomas Drummond

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“Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.”

“Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.”

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”

“Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”

“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”