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 only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

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good
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

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Prejudice
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Other Quotes from
Corruption
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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. – John Lyly

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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

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

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Corruption

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. – Scottish Proverb

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Corruption

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