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

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

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

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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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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself. – Henry Fairlie, quoted in Conservation Foundation Letter, November 1981

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