 The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny. 
Edmund Burke
The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.
Edmund Burke
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
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It is a popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke
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[The marketplace] obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.
Edmund Burke
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Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
Edmund Burke
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Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing on others, he has a right to do for himself . . . all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.
Edmund Burke
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