It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.
Edmund BurkeHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund BurkeHe that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
Edmund Burke