One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKEHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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