Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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