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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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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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People
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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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Age
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. – Edmund Burke

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Change
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Freedom
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people. – Henry A. Wallace

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Freedom

I think there is a heritage which Im proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice. – George Papandreou

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Freedom

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life. – Kylie Minogue

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Freedom

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in mans heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. – George H. W. Bush

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Freedom

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We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive… and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. – D.H. Lawrence

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Freedom cannot be given… It can only be taken away. – David Allan Coe

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I mean, Id love to have a private jet – I know people who fly by private jet all the time… Ive hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all its a great way to travel! – Marc Jacobs

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Travel

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there – there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood. – Dee Dee Myers

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Change