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

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

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Corruption

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. – Walter Lippmann

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Corruption

The bad apples are at the top. They enjoy murdering the innocent people. – James Dye

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Corruption

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. – Leon Trotsky

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Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality. – Linda Blandford

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You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if – if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what weve coming in, Ill veto it. I mean, Im going to try to work with you the best I can, but Im going to veto it. – Rick Perry

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Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. – Jean Piaget

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No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. – Thomas Huxley

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