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Quote by Edmund Burke
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscie

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke

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Justice
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Edmund Burke
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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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Imagination
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Edmund Burke
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Better is the enemy of good. – Voltaire

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Well, real estate is always good, as far as Im concerned. – Donald Trump

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I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. Its good time management. – Michelle Williams

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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson

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