Quotes by Burke, Edmund

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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. >>

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. >>

Quotations about Welfare

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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.

Burke, Edmund