Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKETo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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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.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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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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