Quote by Edmund Burke
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. - Edm

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty
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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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Imagination
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Other Quotes from
Corruption
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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. – Scottish Proverb

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Corruption

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway

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Corruption

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. – Henry David Thoreau

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Corruption

Its totally corrupt man. – James Dye

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Corruption

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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. – Peter Lewis Allen

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. – Marianne Moore

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