In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
EDMUND BURKESilence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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