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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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

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Wherever you see a man who gives someone elses corruption, someone elses prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. – John Jay Chapman

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

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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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