Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEToleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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