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

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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Taxation
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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Shame
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Corruption
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I am against government by crony. – Harold L. Ickes

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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 are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Corruption

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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Corruption

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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Hope

Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things. – Philip Delaney

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Facts

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. – Carl Sandburg

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Nature

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. – Terry Goodkind

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