Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national...

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a...

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a...

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set...

The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set...

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;...

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;...

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little...

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little...

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

The march of the human mind is slow

The march of the human mind is slow

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the...

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the...

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Patience will achieve more than force.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands...

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands...