An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKEWhenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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