Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKENothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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