When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
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No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burk
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Edmund Burke
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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