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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.
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But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
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