All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial […]
Cunning Quotes
Sly as a fox.
Cunning is a short blanket – if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
Bribes throw Dust into cunning Men’s eyes.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. (Marquis of Halifax)
She knew her distance and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments on fancy’s course Are motives of more fancy; and in fine, her infinite cunning, with her modern grace Subdued me to her rate. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
I have a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel.
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
