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

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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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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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Wisdom
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Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. Were saying that for America to get back on track, were probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. Were going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. – Hillary Clinton

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The good die young, because they see its no use living if you have got to be good. – John Barrymore

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Four legs good, two legs bad. – George Orwell

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I met Woz when I was 13, at a friends garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together. – Steve Jobs

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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. – Henry Miller

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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud. – General Douglas MacArthur

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Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole. – John F. Kennedy

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Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle. – Bobby Hull

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