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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
— Edmund Burke
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
— Edmund Burke
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
— Edmund Burke
Tags: beer, moral, pressure, wine, men
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
— Edmund Burke
Tags: gain, silent, conscience, people, good
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
— Edmund Burke
Tags: none, good
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
— Edmund Burke
Tags: soil, grows, every, weed, slavery
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