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.
EDMUND BURKEHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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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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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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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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