Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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