"Nothing remains, under God, but those passions which have often proved the best ministers of His vengeance, and the surest protectors of the world."
— God

January 1, 1970

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Lecture XXVIL: On Habit - Part II, in “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy”, delivered at The Royal Institution in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806 by the late Rev. Sydney Smith, M.A. (Spottiswoodes and Shaw (London: 1849)), p. 424 — Another Variant: When the usual hopes and the common aids of man are all gone, nothing remains under God but those passions which have often proved the best ministers of His purpose and the surest protectors of the world. — Quoted by Theodore Roosevelt in his "Bro