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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. - Edmund Burke

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Art
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Edmund Burke
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke

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Men
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Edmund Burke
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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Dissent
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Other Quotes from
Slavery
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It cannot in the opinion of His Majestys Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Slavery

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. – Wayne Dyer

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Slavery

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? – William Cowper

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Slavery

Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his masters commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style. – W. H. Auden

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Slavery

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I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude. – William Banting

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All diseases run into one, old age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. – Edmund Burke

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Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society. – Jenny McCarthy

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