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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke

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.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKE

Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKE

Abandonment Power Willing
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE

Born Death History Live Value
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
EDMUND BURKE

Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKE

Age Economics Forever Success
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKE

Caution Wisdom
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKE

Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE

Exact Greatness Nature
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE

Flatter Generosity Receive
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKE

Love Man Power
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE

Government Injustice Oppression
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
EDMUND BURKE

Infant Original Planning Thinking

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