Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Edmund Burke quotations.....

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke

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