Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKEThe true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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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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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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