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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking

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