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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | James Fenimore Cooper |

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Fredrik Bajer |

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Samuel Butler |