Edmund Burke Quotes About Freedom
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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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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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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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Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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