Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEA great empire and little minds go ill together.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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