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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

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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

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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). – Lewis Carroll

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