Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKEThe great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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