Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKEThe great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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