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Capable Quotes by Edmund Burke
- In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
- Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
- In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend…
- God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad…
- Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or…
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