Quotes of Polity - somelinesforyou

“ Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings. ”

- John Dryden

“ In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ In describing the Mound-builders no effort has been made to paint their costume, their modes of life or their system of government. They are presented to the reader almost exclusively under a single aspect, and under the influence of a single emotion… ”

- Cornelius Mathews
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