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"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist." -
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Edmund Burke
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Top 5 quotes from Edmund Burke
"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
Top 5 quotes from Liberty, Morality
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble."
"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience."
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
"I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."
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