Quote #17

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

More from Edmund Burke

  1. The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when…
  2. Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
  3. He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
  4. They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
  5. Gentlemen, the melancholy event of yesterday reads to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordina…
  6. You can never plan the future by the past.
  7. I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never be…
  8. Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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