Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 1284 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.~ Edmund Burke Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.~ Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.~ Edmund Burke The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.~ Edmund Burke We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.~ Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.~ Edmund Burke Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.~ Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund Burke 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.~ Edmund Burke Liberty, without wisdom, is license.~ Edmund Burke Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund Burke All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund Burke Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.~ Edmund Burke The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.~ Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.~ Edmund Burke They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund Burke The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.~ Edmund Burke The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.~ Edmund Burke Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.~ Edmund Burke My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.~ Edmund Burke Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print