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Quote by Edmund Burke
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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty
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Edmund Burke
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. – Denis Waitley

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. – Hannah Arendt

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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. – Dutch Proverb

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Nothing weights lighter than a promise. – German Proverb

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