Quotes from John Randolph

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

I am an aristocrat: I love liberty, I hate equality.

All of us have two educations; one which we receive from others; another and more valuable; which we give ourselves.

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.