Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKEOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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