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Quote by Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. – Edmund Burke

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. – Margaret Mitchell

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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. – Rollo May

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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,… of searching and experimenting,… of saying No to any authority — literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political. – Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950

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It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. – Henry Charles Carey

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