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Quote by Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and im

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty
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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

Category:
Welfare
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Edmund Burke
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Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. – Josh Billings

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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. – Salvador Dali

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Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. – Paul Chatfield

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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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