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Liberty Quotes by Edmund Burke
- It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
- 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…
- Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
- Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
- The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
- Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do,…
- The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from…
- We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
- Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
- They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
- The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist…
- My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
- It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt…
- Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
- All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
- That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is…
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
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- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton