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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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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Build Prudence Rage Time
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present

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