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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

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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History
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Edmund Burke
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. – Edmund Burke

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Men
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Edmund Burke
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Other Quotes from
Corruption
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway

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Corruption

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

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Corruption

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

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Corruption

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

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Corruption

Random Quotes

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good. – Sharon Gless

Category:
Attitude

I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but Ive been to Africa a bunch of times and its just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful. – Kris Allen

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thankful

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesnt mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality. – Ed Gillespie

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Faith

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. – Rudolf Otto

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Beauty