Quotes from John Philpot Curran

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

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.

In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

The condition 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.

The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.