John Philpot Curran Men Quotations

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.