Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

James Mackintosh's Popular Quotes

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

- James Mackintosh

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which tau…

- James Mackintosh

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

- James Mackintosh

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

- James Mackintosh

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

- James Mackintosh

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

- James Mackintosh

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

- James Mackintosh

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

- James Mackintosh

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

- James Mackintosh