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Quote by Edmund Burke
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the la

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. – 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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Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses. – Rick Perry

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. – Aristotle

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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine. – Paul Wellstone

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While theres life, theres hope. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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