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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

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Taxation
Author
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

Category:
Liberty
Author
Edmund Burke
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Government
Author
Edmund Burke
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didnt get in bad, bad trouble. – Paul Giamatti

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Freedom

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it. – Ferdinand Mount

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Freedom

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. – Sir Edwin Arnold

Category:
Freedom

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. – Karl Popper

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Freedom

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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. – Omar Bradley

Category:
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I feel like Im too busy writing history to read it. – Kanye West

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By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. Im always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain – or else youll never keep at them. – Lisa Edelstein

Category:
diet

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter. – Patricia Briggs

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Summer