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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

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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Dissent
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Edmund Burke
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. – Edmund Burke

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Change
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Edmund Burke
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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Time
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Other Quotes from
Corruption
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Wherever you see a man who gives someone elses corruption, someone elses prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. – John Jay Chapman

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Corruption

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. – Bess Myerson

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Corruption

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. – William Shakespeare

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Corruption

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. – John Lyly

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Corruption

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Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. – Carter Lindberg

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In the country of pain we are each alone. – May Sarton

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alone

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Gardens

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. – Saint Francis de Sales

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