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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

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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Art
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Edmund Burke
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Prejudice
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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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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It aint. – Lyn Nofziger

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Freedom

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. – Samuel Adams

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Freedom

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. – Dennis Prager

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Freedom

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom to and freedom from. – Marilyn vos Savant

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Freedom

Random Quotes

I do other sorts of things. I act in other peoples movies. I direct operas. I write books. – Werner Herzog

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movies

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than Americas and juicier than Britains. I think its a cross between the two of them, really. – Scott Thompson

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Humor

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people. – Jim Ramstad

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Freedom

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. – Cyril Connolly

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Family