There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.
Edmund BurkeHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund BurkeI dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.
Edmund Burke