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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

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Promises
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Edmund Burke
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

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good
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Edmund Burke
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Other Quotes from
Corruption
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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

Category:
Corruption

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

Category:
Corruption

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

Category:
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

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Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. – Greg, age8

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Liberty is maintained by responsible freedom. – Roger W Hancock, www.PoetPatriot.com

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Freedom

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason Im upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man. – LeBron James

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Home

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker. – Kamisese Mara

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Health