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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

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare

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