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“ The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations. ”

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

~ Edmund Burke

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But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

~ Edmund Burke

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (1794)]

~ Edmund Burke

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

~ Edmund Burke

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