Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. Ther >>

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger w >>

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with dili >>

Quotations about Deception

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of h >>

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. >>

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. >>

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Johnson, Samuel