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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

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
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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Assumption Country Himself Man
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk

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