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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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power
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Edmund Burke
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. – Edmund Burke

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For every promise, there is price to pay. – Jim Rohn

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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. – Sydney J. Harris

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Promises

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. – Author Unknown

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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. – Norman Vincent Peale

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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. – Edmund Burke

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