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Ancestry, Ancestors
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We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
-Junius, letter to London Publick Advertiser 1769
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Cowardice/Weakness
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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
-Junius
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Decisions
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The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
-Junius
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Facts
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One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
-Junius
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Generosity
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How much easier is it to be generous than just.
-Junius
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Guilt
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Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.
-Junius
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Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted.
-Junius, Letters, No. 67. (1772)
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Humor
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
-Junius
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Insults
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Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
-Junius
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Integrity
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The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
-Junius
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Judging, Judgment
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Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
-Junius
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Justice
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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
-Junius
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Persuasion
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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
-Junius
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When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
-Junius
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Politics
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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.
-Junius
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Speech (freedom of)
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The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.
-Junius, The Letters of Junius 'Dedication to the English Nation'
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Books by and about Junius