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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

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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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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Manners
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Edmund Burke
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The corporations dont have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government. – Jim Hightower

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams

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I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort. – Jewel

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The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. – Hermann Hagedorn, “The Bomb That Fell on America”

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