The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKEI 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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