Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKEThe 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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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 great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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