Irish poet, fl. 1856, whose only work was a book of poems called Musings in the Village Haunts.
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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. Go to Quote / Comment
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Go to Quote / Comment
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. Go to Quote / Comment
Patience will achieve more than force. Go to Quote / Comment
Now, as a law directed against the mass of the nation has not the nature of a reasonable institution, so neither has it the authority: for in all forms of government the people is the true legislator; and whether the immediate and instrumental cause of the law be a single person or many, the remote and efficient cause is the consent of the people, either actual or implied ; and such consent is absolutely essential to its validity. Go to Quote / Comment