George Stillman Hillard Quotes

United States, Lawyer
September 22, 1808 – January, 21, 1879.

George Stillman Hillard was an American lawyer and author. Besides developing his Boston legal practice (with Charles Sumner as a partner), he served in the Massachusetts legislature, edited several Boston journals, and wrote on literature, politics and travel.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

George Stillman Hillard
A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

George Stillman Hillard

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

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- Nature
- Aims
- Malignity
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

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- Law
- Fire
- Liberty
There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

George Stillman Hillard
- Eyes
- Hatred
- Sharp
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

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- Ambition
- Ability
- Weak
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

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- Genius
- Strategy
- Function
Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

George Stillman Hillard
- God
- Gifts
- Great Men

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

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- Sunrise
- Superior
- Sunsets
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

George Stillman Hillard
The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

George Stillman Hillard
- Life
- Hope
- Ground
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

George Stillman Hillard