"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

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Source : Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

Edmund Burke

#Wisdom Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Freedom Quotes

“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”
“I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.”
“A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.”
“If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.”
“Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.”
“During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.”

Source : John Frohnmayer (1993). “Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?”
“the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.”

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