Quote by Edmund Burke
Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for th

Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

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

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good
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. – Lydia Maria Child

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The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon ones self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Hasten slowly. – Caesar Augustus

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Look twice before you leap. – Charlotte Bronte

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Affluence creates poverty. – Marshall McLuhan

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Superior people never make long visits. – Marianne Moore

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal

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I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didnt matter who was president. – James Carville

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