“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.”
On Milton (1825)
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British historian and Whig politician 1800–1859Related quotes
“A canter is the cure for all evil.”
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Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
Aphorisms
“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”
Source: Democracy in America
Quoted by George W. Stimpson in A Book About American Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=5eQ5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22One+of+the+greatest+delusions+in+the+world+is+the+hope+that+the+evils+of+the+world+can+be+cured+by+legislation%22&pg=PA342#v=onepage (1952)
“For such is the work of philosophy: it cures souls, draws off vain anxieties, confers freedom from desires, drives away fears.”
Nam efficit hoc philosophia: medetur animis, inanes sollicitudines detrahit, cupiditatibus liberat, pellit timores.
Book II, Chapter IV; translation by Andrew P. Peabody
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
“Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.”
Essays Volume II, Essay XIV: "Private Judgment" http://www.newmanreader.org/works/essays/volume2/private.html British Critic (July 1841).
"The Poison Cure", as translated by Gowri Ramnarayan in Kalki : Selected Stories (1999)