Junius Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

13 Famous Quotes by Junius
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“The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.”
Style Quotes
Source: To Sir W. Draper (letter no. VIII)
“I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.”
Example Quotes
Source: Letter XII--To the Duke of Grafton
“The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.”
Journalism Quotes
Source: Dedication to Letters
“Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.”
Wealth Quotes
Source: Affair of the Falkland Islands (vol. I, letter XLII)
“These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.”
Imagination Quotes
Source: Letter No. VII--To Sir W. Draper
“How much easier is it to be generous than just.”
Generosity Quotes
“It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.”
Cowards Quotes
“Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.”
Harm Quotes
“The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision.”
Opposition Quotes
“It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.”
Cowardice Quotes
“Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.”
Freedom of the press Quotes
“The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute. -Junius.”
Heart-quotes Quotes
“If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.”
Vice Quotes