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Quotes: Burke, Edmund

The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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(Added by Charlie on 7/13/2004, 7:25pm)

The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.

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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 4/13/2004, 1:31pm)

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke
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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/21/2004, 6:48pm)

It is a popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke
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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/14/2004, 7:31pm)

[The marketplace] obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Edmund Burke
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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/14/2004, 7:31pm)

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Edmund Burke
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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/14/2004, 7:30pm)

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing on others, he has a right to do for himself . . . all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Edmund Burke
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(Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/14/2004, 7:29pm)