Quote by Edmund Burke
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble gover

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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Imagination
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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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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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Government
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That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. – Lysander Spooner

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Government

Conventional wisdom on governments role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive. – Paul Ryan

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Government

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. – Steve King

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Government

Im interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. – Dave Eggers

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Government

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If you steal from one author, its plagiarism; if you steal from many, its research. – Wilson Mizner

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Plagiarism

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself. – David Sarnoff

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Faith

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. – Chinese Proverb

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Life

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. – Flannery OConnor

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Experience